This gets to the complaint that so much of the open source ecosystem gets to version 0.8.6 (whether it's named that or not) and then completely rewritten "this time the right way". That's not actually a good thing.
> It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?