Which repo were they referring to that was growing too big vertically?
Possibly this dude's repos? https://github.com/xesf
Every day, he sends hundreds of commits to his (most likely vibecoded) repositories of retro games recompilation.
Possibly Shopify's monolith.
Or alternatively someone is doing something very silly.
The biggest very active repo I know of is nixpkgs, and I heard it was a stress test for GitHub already.