Almost every practice in software development is a compromise that wouldn't be necessary if some decision in the past were different.

I think I agreed with you somewhere in this thread, that version-names (flask1, flask2, ...) are a better solution than major versions.

However, `flask` as an import name isn't going to go away. That is simply a reality and we have to work with it, because alot of projects rely on this. The same is true for tens of thousands of important software packages all over the OSS landscape.

So we can argue all day and then some over "what if"s...it won't change the status quo that exists, and in that state, semver is a good compromise that solves way more problems than it introduces.