Semantic version doesn&#x27;t solve compatibility problems, it just makes it more transparent. In some ways semver encourages breaking changes that otherwise might be avoided because, how, a major version bump gives you sufficient warning.<p>There are some major libraries that are on version 15 or greater... there&#x27;s nothing good from a user&#x27;s perspective about having a library they use do a major breaking release every other month.<p>What&#x27;s worse is many libraries take advantage of &quot;it&#x27;s the wild west until 1.0&quot; rule in semver and simple never release a 1.0.