This feels like an overly abrasive response that makes me seriously question whether using Underscore moving forward is a good idea. I really hate to say that because I think Jeremy's projects are awesome.

This is the most depended on module on npm. Why are you so intent on alienating the package consumers? IMO, having a version 47.0.0 and such doesn't seem all that terrible to me, and is still just as human readable. Other groups are doing it and it's working just fine (ie Chrome).