I'm biased for sure, but the biggest thing keeping me from using sqlite or pglite in the browser is the size of the WASM payloads. They dwarf every other part of a well designed app, at least for the simple things I like to build.
Ah I see! If your use case was read-only you might be able to cut out some of the binary size, but it sounds like Web SQL would've been what you need unfortunately
