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> Happens all the time when package.json defaults to foo: "^1.2.3", and some bozo does breaking changes in 1.2.5.

No it doesn't. Since npm 5, npm is lockfile-by-default, you don't get updates unless you ask for them. Whether one particular package correctly respects semver is irrelevant.



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