My take on this is that, all else being equal, it seems the major selling point of Conventional Commits is that their commit summaries can be used to calculate

My take on this is that, all else being equal, it seems the major selling point of Conventional Commits is that their commit summaries can be used to calculate the next version bump. But IMHO, instead of asking everyone to annotate every single commit message with a marker just so a separate tool can process it (possibly to get it wrong), it's better to just update the version directly when making changes. This way the version bump is deliberately and carefully thought out, and doesn't need to pollute all commit messages in the process.