Ahh, I bet that’s it! I’ve had to work with team sizes at my last job that are way way larger than they ever should have been. My current job has like 4 people that have access, and they still put everything through me regardless. ^.^;
I can see mono-repo’s being fine for very very few programmers on the project, but honestly just keep them as different namespaces in the same thing then, no need for the umbrella overhead. Even for projects by myself I still like to pull the pieces out a lot because it forces me to keep the bounds that I know belong there so I don’t accidentally (and I will otherwise) cross those bounds unless they are enforced.
