That is a good thing, which I wish more package systems used. In popular programming package managers that use “semver”, bumping a major version usually breaks all of the internet and then some more. If you don’t believe it, just search for a non-trivial gulp or webpack recipes and it will come. The fact that ls is always the same (except for bsd and few non-standard options) is very useful when you plan to run your system for years+. Personally I don’t want to learn ripgrep, grep and aliases I have in my .profile are fine by me, and there is no reason for me to spend time to replace them with shiny new.
