Version numbering has no implications on development.
I understand that, so then why change it?
Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.
This does not appear to be true.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/qw856/what_gives_with_the_firefox_rapid_development/
- https://mitchellbaker.net/2011/08/rapid-release-process/
That blog post has an aura of marketing speak around it.
Version numbering has no implication on development and doesn't even need to align internally and publicly, so somewhere a conscious decision was made to do it this way for "reasons". I conjecture those reasons are at least partially due to marketing. Is this not fair?