Often when it's mentioned it's treated as a hard rule, claiming semver has no justification as any change is a breaking change. Though in practice most softwar

Often when it's mentioned it's treated as a hard rule, claiming semver has no justification as any change is a breaking change. Though in practice most software packages are not used extensively to the point that any observable behavior is depended upon (and Hyrum himself opens with this caveat "With a sufficient number of users ...").