Fully agree. Staring at the same leading number in the versions of a given piece of software for my whole life is a very acceptable worst case price to pay for

Fully agree. Staring at the same leading number in the versions of a given piece of software for my whole life is a very acceptable worst case price to pay for opening up the version space to those really big "spiritual successor" kind of changes. Just imagine the headache if Angular had bumped the most significant number for every change pre-Angular2. All the we difference between 1.x and 2.x would be perfectly obscured.