Git can be used in monorepos. The problem is often that people don't put in the effort to configure it (or configure their aliases, or per-repo gitconfig) so th

Git can be used in monorepos. The problem is often that people don't put in the effort to configure it (or configure their aliases, or per-repo gitconfig) so that it's not slow; they just accept that slowness is inevitable. I think that your slow `git status` may be due to untracked file detection: try `git status --untracked-files=no`