@tanepiper I just recently wanted a local document database for testing purposes, and this would have been great to have w/o managing additional deps.
Also the Electron people seem to really like it: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53752#issuecomment-2241100803
And after all, SQLite is a universal, free and widely used database, so adding native (meaning well maintained) support to Node.js makes a lot of sense for many beginners.
I don't see that this encourages insecure data more than the 'node:fs' module.