Unfortunately, go has broken semver, so all of my go projects now stay at 1.x.y, with x being the "major" version (breaking changes) and y being the "minor" version (non-breaking changes) and the 1 sitting there useless. I suspect that many others do the same, so for go projects the x version field is the one to pay attention to.

Although TBH it's not all bad; all anybody has ever really cared about is "are there breaking changes or not?"