@A4D [emphasis added] -
I saw a direct value to wp 3...

And I think that this is part of the problem, also: the WordPress version-number convention makes sense to us, but for the 99-percenters (no pun intended), WordPress 3.0 = WordPress 3. I'm quite sure that there are people out there who will wait three years for WordPress 4.0 to come out, before upgrading from WordPress 3.0.

(I'm not suggesting that WordPress change its version-numbering convention, but rather that we need to do a better job educating users.)