[zokier]

To me semver makes only sense if critical bug(/security) fixes will get backported to old major version(s). Otherwise downstream consumers do not really have true choices to make based on the info deduced from semver. Basically if as an upstream your intent is not to support old versions then that heavily implies that everyone should update to latest asap regardless of the brekage.

[Uvix]

Even if I always take the latest for direct dependencies, semver is still helpful preventing breakage from incompatible upgrades to indirect dependencies. If I depend on library A, and library A depends on library B, I can't fix any breakage from an incompatible update to library B. I need to wait for library A to update.