If you look at the recent StackOverflow survey, the majority of the developers only have around 5 years of professional experience in the industry.

SQL has been around since the 1970s and is still around in force for reason. There's a good chance a lot of developers, especially the enormous number on the front end, do not have experience with SQL or are just getting into back-end work where they are exposed to it.

There have been a lot of SQLite articles recently, as well as node.js libraries to query SQL. I have a hunch this may be why.