To add to your point: let's differentiate between a monolithic REPOSITORY vs a monolithic CODE BASE. Having all the code in a monolithic REPOSITORY allows devel

To add to your point: let's differentiate between a monolithic REPOSITORY vs a monolithic CODE BASE. Having all the code in a monolithic REPOSITORY allows developers to more efficiently explore and transform the code with a better understanding of the breadth of their impact. Whether the CODE BASE is monolithic or not is orthogonal to the repository's nature. I was G for a couple years and I'd say they've done an ok job of breaking things up into libraries and services. Certainly there are interfaces that have done a better or worse job of setting the code up for open sourcing but because of the nature of the repository, large scale refactoring is more efficiently accomplished.