This is similar to the versioning scheme used by AWS and it worked well there. Versioning was rarely done, but this was a clean scheme for surfacing breaking changes to users. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/developer-...

It is a little surprising that the version defaults to the 2022-11-28 rather than defaulting to latest if omitted, but I guess that's a way to err on the side of not breaking old users when they upgrade an SDK.