Oh I remember at previous work when the (now lead engineer) decided that the main repo that depended on actively changing 4 subrepo currently included as subtre

Oh I remember at previous work when the (now lead engineer) decided that the main repo that depended on actively changing 4 subrepo currently included as subtrees had to be changed to submodule. This in a rapidly developing repo where the main branch hadn't been update for 18 months while "develop" branch was switched to other "sub" branches on monthly basis. Needless to say it was a total shitshow. My first experience of how "wanting to use the cool stuff I just found out about" type of perso in position of decision making can be catastrophic. The dude wanted to switch all code base to C++20 in 2020, 3 days after the conference