It’s not creating a new problem that didn’t already exist.
In many situations at work, trying to follow SemVer would be a technical solution to a non-technical problem.
You know who your users are. Before you make any breaking change, you already have cross-product team meetings with possible executive buy in.
In those scenarios, by time you assign a version number, everyone is already on the same page. The actual version number is meaningless and conveys no useful information. Spending any time on deciding the version creates unnecessary toil.
It is creating a problem that didn't exist because using this instead of SemVer eliminates the option to communicate meaningful compatibility information.
>You know who your users are. Before you make any breaking change, you already have cross-product team meetings with possible executive buy in.
Generally none of these things are true. You don't know your users or how they intend to use your product. The executives certainly don't care about version numbers.
There are some cases where nobody cares about version numbers, which mainly occur when there is one or a handful of consumers of a product and they are likewise committed to very frequent releases. This is not how most distributable libraries work. Furthermore, people care less about version numbers when the numbers are not correctly assigned in the first place. If you aren't using SemVer then it's just an increasing sequence for the most part.