alt Hacker Newstrunk based is the way to go, especially for small teams building web / backend services
especially combined with monorepo
amount of time people spend updating dependencies between internal services and libraries in a pursuit of semver for now reason is just absurd
Thats my situation. We're 5 devs for 5 years on a monorepo with about 50 services and worked on master without problems. Just from time to time a merge conflict. The only difficulty is to manage Release branch(es) with hotfixes. Discipline, Thinking and Working together, that's the magic source.