Aggregate is synonymous with transactional consistency boundary. A properly designed Aggregate is one that can be modified in any way required by the business with its invariants completely consistent within a single transaction. And a properly designed Bounded Context modifies only one Aggregate instance per transaction in all cases. What is more, we cannot correctly reason on Aggregate design without applying transactional analysis.

If you find that you must create many finder methods supporting use case optimal queries on multiple Repositories, it’s probably a code smell. First of all, this situation could be an indication that you’ve misjudged Aggregate boundaries and overlooked the opportunity to design one or more Aggregates of different types. The code smell here might be called Repository masks Aggregate mis-design