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Date based version numbers is just lazy. There's nothing more significant about a release in two weeks (2025.x.y) than today (2024.x.y).
At least with pride versioning there's some logic to it.
the point is just to have a way to tell releases apart, if every release is version 5 then you're going to start self harming