Doesn't this lose the primary latency benefit of Sqlite by introducing a network connection?

I wanted to comment exactly the same. This loses the advantage of SQLite, make it slower and more cumbersome to operate. You can simply do this with a library.

Simply?

They pretty much did the work for a lib at this point…

Lemme try and defend without fully understanding or use:

Say you have a local sqlite database and want to share it.

Wouldn't this allow such an extension?

Interesting that they chose to use port 5984, which is also the same port that CouchDB uses, but their API is completely different from the CouchDB API.

I'd only fallback to "changes" when I don't know the "intentions".

What is the intended use case?

To get VC funding?