Instead of listening to authors, I evaluate for large projects what the actual semantic version of a piece of software is, and other people should do the same.

Instead of listening to authors, I evaluate for large projects what the actual semantic version of a piece of software is, and other people should do the same. If someone says they're 0.11.4 and they broke the API 115 times in major, non-compatible ways over the last decade, they're 115.x.x, period. To assume otherwise is just admiring window dressing.