> Monorepos allow you to do very bad hacks (I need this other component over there; let me just put in a Symlink. Done.). I've seen that with polyrepos as well

> Monorepos allow you to do very bad hacks (I need this other component over there; let me just put in a Symlink. Done.). I've seen that with polyrepos as well: The entire project would require you to clone the individual repos into a specific directory structure so that things would work (no, not even submodules).