Avoiding release and dependency management is not a shortcut - it's avoiding a needless detour. Management is overhead, overhead requires resources like the 'g

Avoiding release and dependency management is not a shortcut - it's avoiding a needless detour. Management is overhead, overhead requires resources like the 'good devops' people you mention. Many companies and teams are lean and must find ways to work more efficiently - mono repos are simpler so they are the default option. Only if you have a really good reason to support multiple versions of software simultaneously or have real independent teams with boundaries should you consider making your process more complicated by breaking this up. "The first rule of distributed systems is don’t distribute your system until you have an observable reason to."