Agreed. I have no interest in trying a monorepo. I want to use standard dependencies, but have the option of storing the known package list somewhere other than package.elm-lang.org and the code somewhere other than GitHub. My proposal to add this to the elm executable didn’t get much traction. I think it will satisfy lots of people, allows lots of customization, and won’t be hard to add to the elm executable, since almost all the work is done by the extension.
I’m even willing to do the work myself to add it, if Evan is open to considering a pull request.