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I think they mean in addition to all releases possibly having breaking changes, the developers did not pick 8.0 instead of 7.10 because they thought this is a significant milestone, but instead because they always roll from N.9 to (N+1).0.

OpenBSD predates popular semantic versioning conventions by a few years.

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I think MS-DOS already used in the 80s what you call "semantic" versioning. (Most probably even earlier examples, this is just the first thing that came to mind.)

No, MS-DOS followed a simple major.minor scheme, with major bumps signifying project milestones or marketing reasons.

Semantic versioning is not what I call it, it’s a formal specification: https://semver.org/

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