[wkd]

I don't understand why some developers insists on using semver and not follow the spec, in my opinion that is the only 'problem' with semver.

If you need a version and don't care about following the spec just use a timestamp or datetime, replace it where required with a sed command and move on but please don't claim to use semver if it's just an arbitrary number for you

[matt_kantor]

And if you're in some context where you're forced to use SemVer (npm, cargo, etc) but you can't be arsed to think about backwards compatibility, just bump the major version with every release.