Comment by Sean1708

  >> fix a bug or add a new feature
  > Not sure why i should care about these tho.

I'm using feature X. Feature X was introduced in version X.Y. Therefore I can't use any version less than X.Y.

  >> essentially breaking existing integration

  > Not sure why you need 3 numbers to express that. Am i right in that your consumers dont get bugfixes by default because api patch version is changing? How is this working irl?

No. When you fix a bug you increment the patch version, unless the fix changes the API in which case you wouldn't want it automatically updated anyway.