This sounds similar to an experience I had at a much smaller, less mature company, but without a monorepo. We did, however, have a "platform" team which created

This sounds similar to an experience I had at a much smaller, less mature company, but without a monorepo. We did, however, have a "platform" team which created many packages which all of the other teams depended on which were often forced on the teams. Unfortunately, the reliability of their packages varied greatly, so unless your applications had great integration tests (our team's did), you would take the update and find out in production it caused you issues. I think another poster [0] hit the nail on the head when they identified the problem as likely poor dependency behavior. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846514