If it isn't for a meaningful versioning scheme, how is a version number useful at all? Why not just go version 1, 2, 3 and keep incrementing? People can easily

If it isn't for a meaningful versioning scheme, how is a version number useful at all? Why not just go version 1, 2, 3 and keep incrementing? People can easily guess that patch version bump is safe to apply as it only fixes stuff and apply minor version bump if you want new features which won't break your current deployment and be cautious of any major version bumps. Not that every semver oriented apps closely follow that but it does help users understand if they want to install the new version or not without digging the entire change log.