People take it too seriously and don't realize that you can't realistically categorize every single change neatly into 3 separate breakage categories. Argument

People take it too seriously and don't realize that you can't realistically categorize every single change neatly into 3 separate breakage categories. Arguments abound about how to manage this properly with all sorts of schemes. The fact that "0" is a special case that deserves any consideration is an example of it being broken, imo. What does it actually matter what the first digit is? Version numbers just denote a change happened and you want them to roughly resemble some sort of chronological ordering. Everything else is gasoline for flame wars and company policies.