It’s absolutely inappropriate and appropriative.
They’ve been poor community members from the start when they publicized their one-sided spat with SQLite over their contribution policy.
The reality is that they are a VC-funded company focused on the “edge database” hypetrain that’s already dying out as it becomes clear that CAP theorem isn’t something you can just pretend doesn’t exist.
It’ll very likely be dead in a few years, but even if it’s not, a VC-funded project isn’t a replacement for SQLite. It would take incredibly unique advantages to shift literally the entire world away from SQLite.
It’s a new thing, not the next evolution of SQLite.