That was very much not the default expectation; expecting that things wouldn't break would mean you could update with no oversight, and I don't know a time when

That was very much not the default expectation; expecting that things wouldn't break would mean you could update with no oversight, and I don't know a time when that was ever expected. Things broke all the time, the default expectation was that _something_ would need work, it was just a matter of how much. Semantic Versioning just gives us a framework to (try) to know in advance how much work it would be.