It's interesting to discuss this as an observation or as a way to break cargo culting (as the title suggests), but I feel like this completely ignores the peopl

It's interesting to discuss this as an observation or as a way to break cargo culting (as the title suggests), but I feel like this completely ignores the people aspect. Engineers want to work on interesting problems, not to be slaves to mistakes they made years ago when designing something in their free time. Semver at least seems like a compromise instead of everybody using something different from a graveyard of unmaintained LeftPads. Of course, personally, I want every dependency I pick to be consistent and stable forever. But I want to break things and work on new and interesting problems. I'm also using an open source toolchain and aren't willing to pay for support or maintenance. Since I follow this stuff online, I'm also interested in new ways of solving old problems.