God yes! For the apps that I maintain (and which have users outside my team), I enforce high-quality release notes like you describe. Representative example: https://github.com/sapcc/swift-http-import/blob/master/CHANG... (note that this also takes SemVer seriously)
A normal version number MUST take the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are non-negative integers, and MUST NOT contain leading zeroes. X is the major version, Y is the minor version, and Z is the patch version. Each element MUST increase numerically. For instance: 1.9.0 -> 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0.[1]
