Exactly. For a real world example, Ubuntu's current LTS release 18.04 is running Linux Kernel 4.15 (released Jan-2018). Using a year version format it would be

Exactly. For a real world example, Ubuntu's current LTS release 18.04 is running Linux Kernel 4.15 (released Jan-2018). Using a year version format it would be Linux 2015.15. A lot of less technical people and fake security "experts" are going to freak out about a "2015" kernel. In general people seem less interested in how something is, than how something appears. That's why most companies still insist on password complexity rules and disable pasting to password fields, because it FEELS safer.