[usrbinbash]

> part in my comment you perhaps missed.

I didn't miss any part of your comment. The line you quote was as a reaction to the alternatives presented immediately after that part.

Because why would I sacrifice the advantages of semver for a minor convenience to the programmer of a sorting function?

> in practice the semver works 95% of the time

Which, based on nothing but my gut feeling, is a lot better than the 30% of the time any other versioning scheme works, where the only way to be reasonably sure that an update would not break my code was to diff the library (if the thing is open source), or read all the documentation, and pray to Zeus that it's complete and accurate.