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In this case, It’s what it does that matters, not how it does it. I don’t care if SQLLite is powering it. Maybe the author would want to swap out the SQLLite engine with something else in the future too. Then it’s even better that they didn’t advertise the link to SQLLite as a selling point.

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SQL dialects have significant differences. You can't simply change the underlying engine without breaking backward compatibility. It's also good to redirect documentation to official sqllite docs instead of writing a 1000 page manual yourself.

It does actually matter what's running under, so you know what to expect from its behavior and if one doesn't exactly need the few features textQL offers exclusively, you would think to just use SQLite without random layers on top.

Sure, but it doesn’t need to be in the title

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