" Google has put a lot of money and effort to make their system nice. Working in a mono repo without that much effort is very frustrating, doubly so because the

" Google has put a lot of money and effort to make their system nice. Working in a mono repo without that much effort is very frustrating, doubly so because there's nothing individual teams can do about it." Sure there is. They can architect code in a way that it doesn't break heavily when other people do things. IE abstract things reasonably. They can test things well. and they can complain when other teams aren't doing either and it's making them less effective.