I'm not saying that other package managers handle it better - if authors wilfully misrepresent the state of their software, it is indeed not the remit of the package manager to correct them. If you started down that road, you'd probably end up with a library of tests (executed in the package manager's registry) to guarantee a non-breaking change, and at that point you have to trust the package author that the tests are indeed accurate, which is basically equivalent to trusting them to write the correct `version` string (unless you auto-generate the tests, which is an interesting idea but probably impractical).

I'm saying that the fact that it is (apparently) the norm in JavaScript-world that authors will regularly publish breaking changes that are not advertised as such, and that that is just an acceptable everyday uncommentworthy inconvenience, is surprising to me. How do y'all get anything done if you can't even trust SemVer enough to automatically pull in minor/patch updates to dependencies!?