It doesn't convey useful information like Semver versioning does.
(Now, why things that don't do Semver don't just do DateVer in lieu of that… IDK, really. Marketing likes to take advantage of it? …& then you get stuff like the OP here.)
(Now, why things that don't do Semver don't just do DateVer in lieu of that… IDK, really. Marketing likes to take advantage of it? …& then you get stuff like the OP here.)
Especially those which currently use the major.minor.patch format but don't care at all about what it usually means, that in itself can be fine but using such a version scheme is then annoyingly misleading.