Look, CE vs EE feature gating aside I think what rubs me the wrong way the most here is the abandoning of SemVer. I was following the PR where it happened and the reasoning seemed to boil down to a bunch of hand-wavey "just because". When 1.13.1 was released I installed it being pretty confident that it was only bugfixes and that's how I perceive the rest of the world to work. When I install 17.04 CE how will I have any idea of the impact on my servers vs 17.03 CE? I mean I read CHANGELOGS and stuff when I can but there's a certain level of comfort knowing that the people who create and package the software have spent enough time to figure out it's just a bunch of non-breaking bugfixes and I'm safe to send it out pretty quickly.
EDIT: I've seen somewhere that it's supposed to mirror the Ubuntu naming scheme but that's fundamentally different. I know that the "X.04 LTS" releases are stable-ish and they only come out every 2 years (right? Going off the top of my head here), which is waaaaay different than monthly releases in terms of time spent vetting the stability IMO.
EDIT: I've seen somewhere that it's supposed to mirror the Ubuntu naming scheme but that's fundamentally different. I know that the "X.04 LTS" releases are stable-ish and they only come out every 2 years (right? Going off the top of my head here), which is waaaaay different than monthly releases in terms of time spent vetting the stability IMO.