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The name chosen probably didn't help here. “Base” is a very generic term.

It's also the name of the database application in LibreOffice, confusingly.

And its development got really quiet for a few years, I think.

That may well be the main reason, actually.

That's why marketing/distribution/sales is very important. As a developer most of us think if we build a good product everyone will start using it, which is very wrong in 99% of the cases.

I feel the same way. I've searched for sqlite guis many times and this has never come up.