[Quarrelsome]

> My issue is that if I choose sqlite to store data locally in my browser or my cell phone, why do I suddenly want to store it in the cloud?

I don't think those solutions are necessarily that bad. There was one the other week that offered a means of guaranteed sync to a sqlite file in the cloud. Its nice to have the infra to allow users to hop around devices and have backups. What's weird to me, is trying to magic it into a performant multi-client db which the underlying technology was never designed to be.