Comment by IshKebab
5 hours ago
I would say that at least the submodule problem is more like the last 45%. Every single company I've worked in has ended up using submodules and it always ends up causing huge amounts of pain because they suck.
The only alternative Git offers, which is slightly better IMO, is monorepos. But they're only slightly better - they also have really significant downsides.
I'm 100% sure there's a much nicer solution to the kinds of problems people use submodules for that isn't submodules, but as far as I can tell zero people are trying to find it, despite it being such a universal problem.
From my viewpoint, a lot of the submodule problems are effectively same as the monorepo problems, including how you end up with both problems. There certainly are factorings of projects into "microservices" and moving the dependency management problems out of source control to package managers of different types. Microservices and package management sure do have their own problems and trade-offs and there isn't a "universal solution", just what side of the trade-offs you prefer to be on.