It seems to be a universal law of software projects:
1: Start out lean and simple. Often replacing an old complex one
2: Become more complex over time
3: Be replaced by a new lean and simple one
1: Start out lean and simple. Often replacing an old complex one
2: Become more complex over time
3: Be replaced by a new lean and simple one
If you can take a developer using the old version that was lean and simple, give them the latest version full of extra features, and they can use that version without any need to change anything, then I think it's fine.
And, so far, I think that SQLite has done a good job of keeping their core usage lean and simple.