"Write amplification" of breaking API changes

One of my past managers once said: &#xA; &#xA; Why all open-source developers just won&rsquo;t stop publishing new versions of their libraries? &#xA; He certainly didn&rsquo;t hate progress as such. This phrase was said when after some dependency update, together with a fix for a security vulnerability, the update introduced a few breaking changes and halted actual product work for a good part of…