Saying the pattern is the same isn't the same as saying two things fitting the pattern are the same in every respect.

Patterns are necessarily reductionist, like any sort of comparison of things that aren't 100% similar.

There is value in recognizing patterns. They're useful for comprehension and memory.

> This is the same pattern as versioning

I guess we disagree on the reasonable interpretations of this sentence

That's only half of the sentence