Just double checked. Unless you specifically turn it off (reverting to Lerna's old behavior), it does leans on npm/pnpm/yarn's workspaces. Npm is indeed getting

Just double checked. Unless you specifically turn it off (reverting to Lerna's old behavior), it does leans on npm/pnpm/yarn's workspaces. Npm is indeed getting better at this stuff too. I did some tests on our main monorepo (~8 services linked together), for us npm was marginally slower than pnpm and pretty much equivalent to yarn. It also does optionally lean on Nx for task execution. So at that point, lerna itself isn't doing much outside linking internal dependencies.