Most RDBMS's got a well deserved reputation for "scary and complex" because they are enterprise grade software serious enough to have an entire career named aft

Most RDBMS's got a well deserved reputation for "scary and complex" because they are enterprise grade software serious enough to have an entire career named after their administration. Much of the resources you'll find about these databases is written with the assumption that the reader is in that career track, which often isn't true. This of course has nothing to do with the relational model, and teaching a newbie to use sqlite is a good way of demonstrating that.