I've been in a project where some (authoritative) people had a tendency to split things into separate repositories for very small things, e.g. repositories with

I've been in a project where some (authoritative) people had a tendency to split things into separate repositories for very small things, e.g. repositories with a single class. This was pure developer hell. Any change meant changing at least 3 repositories, including a review for each change. Never understood this decision as all parts needed to be on the latest version anyway. Caused lots of dependency and versioning issues too.