The serious limitation is that you create a column as date, you don’t understand what sqlite does with it, and you start storing strings in there, at which poin

The serious limitation is that you create a column as date, you don’t understand what sqlite does with it, and you start storing strings in there, at which point everything is confused. You can use comments to preserve intent in strict mode, and that’s strictly more useful than fuzzy mode: it is richer, it is clearer, and it is no less reliable.