Package maintainers gleefully choosing chaos over stability is the tech equivalent of a supervillain origin story. Left button: destroy everything that depends on your package with breaking changes. Right button: be a decent human who cares about backward compatibility. The choice? SMASH THAT RED BUTTON!
Nothing says "I wield ultimate power" like releasing a tiny version bump that somehow breaks 73% of the internet. The maniacal grin is just the cherry on top of the dependency hell sundae they're serving us all.