That's not really that different in a monorepo since you often need reviews from the same number of people anyway. I once had to wait for 9 months to get a com

That's not really that different in a monorepo since you often need reviews from the same number of people anyway. I once had to wait for 9 months to get a complex change through in a monorepo setting because of all the people involved, the number of stuff it touched and the fact that everything was constantly in flux so I spent half my time tracking changes. I'm not saying it would have been faster in a polyrepo. I'm saying that complex changes are complex regardless of how the source is organized. I do however think that polyrepos forces you to be more disciplined and that it is easier to slip up in a polyrepo and turn a blind eye to tighter couplings.