I think as single computers get more and more power, and engineers work in these super slow, eventually consistent cloud infrastructures, there’s a visceral appeal of an architecture that can run on my laptop and also scale to a reasonable user base. The only limiting factor for most applications at this point that would prevent a single machine from serving them is having HA/DR. So a lot of effort is being made at the replication side of SQLite so it can be part of this new stack. I am seeing it emerge as a reaction to the crazy amount of microservices and distributed computing just to solve small problems that could fit on a machine. And the inability to work locally as well.