One way to keep vendoring from causing nightmare code reviews is to keep updates to vendored components in their own release/branch/PR. Yes, there will be chang

One way to keep vendoring from causing nightmare code reviews is to keep updates to vendored components in their own release/branch/PR. Yes, there will be changes to your code to accommodate the updated packages, but it keeps it very focused so that the code review isn’t also trying to evaluate updates to business rules or functionality. If you are updating components along with business rule updates, then, yes, it’s going to complicate code review, regardless of vendoring.