> My experience shows that oftentimes these new and supposedly backwards compatible features still break old functionality. Well that's the first issue: downri

> My experience shows that oftentimes these new and supposedly backwards compatible features still break old functionality. Well that's the first issue: downright malpractice. Developers should learn how to know (and test) whether it is a major change or not. The current situation is that developers mostly go "YOLO" with semantic versioning and then complain that it doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work if we do it wrong.