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Monorepo very often means bazel for tooling (rbe and caching tests) and that means one WORKSPACE with common versions of libs.

Monorepo also means a team 'vetting' new thirdparty libs, and a team telling you your CI takes too long, and a team telling you to upgrade your lib within 23 minutes because theres a security issue in the korean language support...

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Monorepo doesn't mean any of those things, nor does a polyrepo setup prevent any of them except for bazel.

It sounds like you worked in a dysfunctional organization that happened to use a monorepo. Their dysfunctions are not inherent in the monorepo model and they would have found other ways to be dysfunctional if not those.

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