Yeah, my major foray into Yarn was to create workspaces for a monorepo without adopting other larger libraries with significant buy-in. I was glad I did it, and my team was, but it was a super-hairy experience trying to get all of the tooling happy within workspaces. I'm sure it's all a lot nicer these days.

What are your problems with workspaces? For my use it works pretty well:

* Deduplicates versions of packages across workspaces (desirable for some projects)

* No-configuration linking between workspace modules

* Doesnt force using a specific structure

* Top level module can be used to specify shared versions