This, my friend, is either a fun demonstration of tragedy of the commons, or, depending on your opinion, an excellent way to come up with agreeable release codenames.
I'm not entirely sure on why the mayor version should be bumped. But then, versions are only there to increase. The logic has always been pretty arbitrary.
Although; we're all sheep sounds like "so, this is when we insert the secret government loophole". It still might, ofc ;)