Thanks! FWIW I think your other comments were plenty legitimate, and definitely don't deserve to be downvoted so low (below that inane "wtf emojis??" comment, of all things).
Although with that said, I doubt webpack can do anything about what you're saying except to try to be conscientious. Obviously breaking too often is bad, but naturally that doesn't mean never ever breaking is necessarily preferable.
I agree with the nuance you add, but also note that the last major version was released July 2017. This is not "never ever breaking", this is breaking all the time :-) There's plenty middle ground.
A lot of the breaking changes could be solved by versioned config formats, for example. Maybe not all, but then maybe the remaining things that are now breaking would be worth keeping alive, albeit as a piece of legacy code that nobody wants to work on improving anymore. I don't know enough about webpack internals to go deep here, but I'm convinced that if there's a strong desire to stay backward compatible it's possible. The webpack team has no such desire, which is their prerogative but I'm still sad about it.
I'm not sure you're being fair with that last bit. Granted, migrating webpack 1->2 was a nightmare even without the docs issue. But in contrast I moved from 2->3 without even touching my (fairly nontrivial) config and everything worked. Presumably there were breaking changes somewhere, but I got the impression they only really affected plugin authors.
So I'm not sure it's fair to decide the devs don't care about breaking changes. It seems more reasonable to assume that some wrong choices were made early on (including about how to handle docs and major releases), and they've been learning and getting better since. After all, if like most things it started out as someone's weekend hack, with no thought of growing into the powerhouse it is now, some early stumbles are fair enough, right?
Although with that said, I doubt webpack can do anything about what you're saying except to try to be conscientious. Obviously breaking too often is bad, but naturally that doesn't mean never ever breaking is necessarily preferable.