I believe typeless is the default because of largely historical reason. Namely, typeless was the original mode and strict mode was added later. But, that’s not

I believe typeless is the default because of largely historical reason. Namely, typeless was the original mode and strict mode was added later. But, that’s not the only reason. There is a whole page on why typeless is a feature and not a bug. https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html