I’ve been happily using date base version numbers in any user facing product (e.g apps) for a while now. It’s been great.

While semver makes great sense on paper, and even allows nifty little algebras in dependency declarations, it is been my experience that the delineations are not always as easy to decode and different team members can quibble over the exact realization of the boundaries.

Furthermore, it’s very much been my experience that semver changes, like all code comments, only communicate the intent of the developer and not always the reality. A minor roll may be anticipated as backwards compatible, until an unrealized use case pops up and makes the minor change very breaking.