[jeltz]

Miatakes happen but as an end user of a library I prefer having semantic versioning giving me a hint on where it is likely there is an API breakage and where there is unlikely to be one. I still use lock files, read release notes and test but knowing where things are likely to break saves me time.

[jrochkind1]

Agreed.

And I definitely don't read release notes of all my dependencies, even indirect ones, every time I update any. I lock to major versions (and hope my dependencies do to for indirect dependencies), and only look at release notes if an update breaks a build.