[enw]

That’s what semantic versioning is:

https://semver.org/ https://docs.npmjs.com/about-semantic-versioning

[qorrect]

What an asinine interpretation. No thanks.

[dordoka]

Care to explain why you do believe it is "an asinine interpretation"?

[NonNefarious]

I agree. It's up to the publisher to decide the significance of version numbers. Just because Node does it one way doesn't mean everyone else has to follow suit.

[enw]

The entire NPM ecosystem is based on semver.

That’s the sole reason for the squiggly marks and carets that exist in every package.json.