There are, nonetheless, lots of situations where I would have reached for pg automatically a few years ago where I now stop and think about which of the two is

There are, nonetheless, lots of situations where I would have reached for pg automatically a few years ago where I now stop and think about which of the two is going to fit my use case better. The comment you're replying to is saying rather more than that, and I don't endorse it, but the shift in the possibility space is still both fascinating and impressive. (also I love sqlite's tendency to use pg as a syntax template, it seems like an example of two projects with significantly different goals playing to each others' strengths in a beautifully positive sum game fashion)