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Lots of companies have turned JS into effectively another language with a subset of its features with internal libraries. Perhaps they aren't as academically interesting as Closure, but it's not that notable.

The monorepo aspect of the story just seems to just make doing this significantly more difficult for no discernible benefit. Isn't this the same team that made that 5 page issue on the TypeScript Github page complaining about a version bump?

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A monorepo surely makes that kind of change difficult. But when it's in, you know every team has access to it. Not just 2 or 3 teams out of hundreds.

It has many other benefits as well that have been outlined in lots of other posts.

This is one such change that is much harder with a monorepo because it introduces many breaking changes. However, in a lot of cases monorepos allow for upgrades and code sharing without much if any effort from individual teams. So a lot of people can get the benefits without doing anything.

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