Basically, they were doing 3.15, 3.16, etc but they decided to turn it into whole numbers. It was currently 3.19 so they decided to go from 3 to 4.0, and remove the decimal.
I know id got on the anthology-naming thing after Quake II, but… FEAR was right there. Pick another monosyllabic name for your id-formula FPS and half the criticism would vanish.
Decades long projects during which time the thought on when you should change the version number and what a version number even is has changed multiple times.
People in general crave the big numbers. It’s why Microsoft is so weird with Xbox naming. Having the Xbox 360 compete with the PlayStation 3 Vs “Xbox 2”.
Firefox also started inflating version numbers because the high version numbers Chrome was using made it look more updated.
Simple, OP and some people just don’t know what they are talking about. There was no “aesthetic reason”.
One of the big changes in GNOME 40 (that would be 3.40) was the introduction of GTK4. People used to assume that the gnome major versioning scheme was tied to GTK, so loads of people were asking the devs when GNOME 4 was coming out.
To demistify this idea of one being tied to the other they just dropped the “3.”, specially since that part wasn’t that relevant and started with the 40.
I was looking a Linus/Linux comment, I was trying to remember at what point Linus said “I’m incrementing the major version because these numbers are getting too big, there is no major advancement”.
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