There are two things which I think combine to make postgresql look "hard" and sqlite "easy": needing a separate process (possibly a separate server) for the dat

There are two things which I think combine to make postgresql look "hard" and sqlite "easy": needing a separate process (possibly a separate server) for the database, and access management. They aren't particularly big deals in the long run, but they can be just enough of a mental hurdle to make the simplicity of "just open a file" look tempting.