Change for the sake of change

We are seeing an increasingly bad pattern with change for the sake of change.
Version bumps, fixing typos in the documentation, etc. etc.

Do not get me wrong, fixing up documentation and such is important, but it should not be the only thing that has changed.

It's time that we take back and do meaningful changes and present them in a useful way.

With this we are putting too much faith in people, and that they are willing to read through commits in git repos.
Those commits are for developers, not for users, for users we need to get back to change logs and clearly outline what the changes are and what it might affect.

Quite a bit of confusion can be avoided if there are properly outline changes, and I get it that much of the Open source world is running on fumes and spare time.
We all understand that there are challenges when underlying libraries and such change, and many times it can feel like you get the rug pulled from underneath you.
This is not a good feeling and leads to many hours of frustration to figure out exactly where things broke, and updates not going through with version pinning and other tools.

It really appears that with the whole server-less push there are certain upsides and certain downsides... Namely the aforementioned lack of clear changes that are presented and documented.
This also has in many cases been introduced silently where you cannot predict what has changed under your feet.

What is worse than coming back from holiday and starting up again to find that there has been a whole lot of changes that are poorly documented and you have to open an archaeological dig site to get up to speed.

With all this in mind, it would not be much to ask to at least have a semblance of comments that describes the changes made, even if it costs a few more calories to write.
Quite some head-scratching can be avoided at the expense of a few more seconds taken to make comments.

Another counter to this would be to avoid rapid changes that are change just for the sake of changing an irrelevant thing.
In some cases this cannot be helped, but should be avoided at all costs for the sake of everyone involved.