Yes, I agree there's definitely a place for Kubernetes. If you have thousands of engineers working on an application then workflow management becomes a very real concern. I've seen a lot of organizations adopt Kubernetes well before then though and I feel like it's a mistake. I didn't mean to imply that all Kubernetes applications should move to SQLite but that SQLite is a viable option for most small to medium sized applications with moderate uptime requirements.
Right, I didn't interpret you as trying to gloss over this nuance, but I've seen a lot of "always k8s vs never k8s" debates which suggests to me that people need the explicit disclaimer.