You're looking at a software project months after its inception, saying it didn't work well then, and then asking why someone would buy it well over a year later...
So, I think my curiosity still stands.
Yeah, ok, I took the date from [1] but you're right the project did in some sense exist before then.
[1] https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go...