There's nothing special about v1 either. So you can just increment the minor version and would have the same effect as if you were just using the major version.

There's nothing special about v1 either. So you can just increment the minor version and would have the same effect as if you were just using the major version. As you said yourself. As long as releases happen I don't think you can say the devs are afraid of commitment. Note that this only applies to self contained software. For libraries SemVer makes sense but other types of software usually don't need it. For my projects I usually just show the major version to the common user and internally SemVer is used for debug information and compatibility signalling (where this applies).