Sure but the idea is that the standard is "just embed SQLite". Nobody has to pretend it's a generic database interface or anything.

“The standard is a third party project we have no view or control over” is not a standard.

We all know that 99.99% sites that need a client-side database will use $subj or its derivative regardless of these kicks and screams. Because there is no decent 300kb RDBMS which could be ported into a browser. All that was achieved by that decision was to put the whole industry on hold for more than ten years.

And that would be a problem... why? We've been working with those for over a decade, they already are.

But the standard is one of best tested apps on the planet.