[grey-area]

As I understand it importers are forced to use urls ending in /v2 for imports, and to find out which major version a project is on when they do import, please do correct me if wrong.

I'd rather this was a choice made by package maintainers individually rather than the go tooling. Most packages simply don't need that as they strive to be backwards compatible and never introduce large breaking changes. Should they always be relegated to versions like 1.9343.234234, because the go tool requires it?

[drpebcak]

Honestly, yes. According to semver, a major version change is for when you make breaking api changes. If a project is backwards compatible, it wouldn’t need to increment the major version.