Next you'll advocate that 1k should be 1000 bytes because 1024 is not intuitive to normal folks.
Besides -- for most software -- if you introducing so many new features that you are exceeding ten point releases without a new major release... then something else is wrong. Time to re-think the release management strategy.
In the free (as in speech) software world, major versions indicate major changes in the software (e.g. gtk+1 vs. gtk+2). A series of minor features, no matter how long, doesn't warrant a new major release number.