The post just reads like some opinionated piece for traffic. The author has never even used a monorepo as far as I can tell, so can only argue from one side, the best one ever used: polyrepo. Then goes on to list 'theoretical' benefits and the downsides (which should also be theoretical if having never been used) of monorepos. It concludes with "The two solutions end up looking identical to the developer. In the face of this, why use a monorepo in the first place? Please don’t!" implying that 'Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others' do it for no benefit.
The post just reads like some opinionated piece for traffic. The author has never even used a monorepo as far as I can tell, so can only argue from one side, the best one ever used: polyrepo. Then goes on to list 'theoretical' benefits and the downsides (which should also be theoretical if having never been used) of monorepos. It concludes with "The two solutions end up looking identical to the developer. In the face of this, why use a monorepo in the first place? Please don’t!" implying that 'Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others' do it for no benefit.