To be fair, if you were to consider yourself an engineer (which I imagine many of HNers would) that's essentially your whole job, overall what you want is to get the requirements fulfilled with the least complexity, cost, time, etc. If deployment difficulty or hardware usage is a consideration in the requirements then it makes sense to try and use a lighter-weight "serverless" database (SQLite doesn't use a client-server model, so it's serverless, got it??? I'll see myself out).
