SQLite and QEMU have been successful in large part because of their limited scope. Further expanding the scope of a project puts it at risk of becoming unfocuse

SQLite and QEMU have been successful in large part because of their limited scope. Further expanding the scope of a project puts it at risk of becoming unfocused and unmaintainable. It makes a lot more sense to start a new project to support this use case than to try to reshape SQLite.