I think it's more trustworthy that the author is honest in their intentions, not less. As they say in the repo, "It's not production ready at all".
A turn off from what, exactly? IMO it does a great job of quickly setting the context of what you are looking at before describing why you might care:
> It's not production ready at all, but that doesn't mean there is no value in the project. If you ever wanted to read database code without getting overwhelmed by massive amounts of code, dbeel is for you.