> If you are going to test everything anyway, version numbers might as well be a simple incrementing integer, or a date, or a random string. You are perhaps ri

> If you are going to test everything anyway, version numbers might as well be a simple incrementing integer, or a date, or a random string. You are perhaps right when you say that semver had failed, but what you list above as alternatives are less expressive. Semver admits a tree of versions (weak ordering) but your alternatives are strictly ordered.