I like innovation, and I'm all for making programming easier.

That said, from the example documentation.. <start>;

option of "v";

capture major { some of <digit>; }

".";

capture minor { some of <digit>; }

".";

capture patch { some of <digit>; }

<end>;

// v1.0.0

Show that to someone who isn't familiar with regex, and they'll have no idea what it means.

Someone who is familiar with regex, will likely prefer the regex format.