I don't disagree that Hyrum's Law[1] is definitely a thing, but in practice with libraries that attempt SemVer or similar compatibility guarantees and understan

I don't disagree that Hyrum's Law[1] is definitely a thing, but in practice with libraries that attempt SemVer or similar compatibility guarantees and understand that they'll be used in a shared library environment, breakage is not that common. It also doesn't work for some ecosystems (like Go) where the practice is to prefer static linking. 1: https://www.hyrumslaw.com https://www.hyrumslaw.com