I never used lerna, because I never got around understanding how it works. What
I use to simplify working with multiple repositories is a simple bash script: ga
(git all), which runs the same command in all git repos in the current
directory:
https://github.com/coderbyheart/workspace/blob/39bc6dc7c870360d07e427cfc3fadd28a871a10d/gitall
https://twitter.com/tomasz_ducin/status/1519436453729734657