Two new generations a year? ;-)
This is a valid point... information to end users... but what about information to engineers and administrators? Something to offer both?
And hopefully, the version number was never "arbitrary"... it should tell me, that for example 7.6 is the seventh generation as seventh minor update (including six minor updates). Indicates also some maturity... :-)
Btw.: I still have 6.4.x here... on a Linux LTS...