It's really weird to me how the SQLite author is clearly a very smart guy and talented developer and then his argument against type safety effectively just boil

It's really weird to me how the SQLite author is clearly a very smart guy and talented developer and then his argument against type safety effectively just boils down to > But I do not recall a single instance where the bugs might have been caught by a rigid type system. Which is a shame. Of course the author writes more than this, but this is IMO largely the gist of the argument. At this point it's beginning to feel like this is mostly a sort of stubborn sunken cost fallacy, where they've been arguing this for so long they can't take the "hit" of agreeing to change the defaults.