TFA assumes several things which may or may not hold for a particular company or team. For example, the Linux kernel works with its tens of millions of lines j

TFA assumes several things which may or may not hold for a particular company or team. For example, the Linux kernel works with its tens of millions of lines just fine, even though ownership is heavily distributed among many subsystem maintainers. Checking out a branch or pulling in changes rarely takes more than a few seconds. On the other hand, some organizations abuse their VCS, using it as a repository for large immutable files such as build artifacts, software packages or similar non-source archives. Orgs who let this happen are of course going to have a hard time. But that's hardly the monorepo's fault.