That has been my experience too. In the early days of HDMI on g98 I tested a number of releases for them trying to resolve a number of issues each having a different version. I don't think I was the only one as between the previous and next public release I think there was something like a jump of 20 odd minor version numbers.

Meridian owner since 1992
Prime & PSU, Focal Elear headphones, Roon (ROCK 8Gi5 NUC), Explorer 1 & 2, F80. 200/203, various Sonos (via Roon).