We exclusively use Dapper for all database access. I have zero problems with a few string constants in my services that contain the requisite SQL statements for managing my business entities against the database. It's really nice having such a consolidated context where your SQLite implementations are just single partial classes tacked onto the services you are providing persistence for.

That is one other point - SQLite has enabled us to do some really deep consolidation of our codebase. We generally use one SQLite database per business entity or abstraction. Users.db, Logs.db, Sessions.db, Settings.db, etc. It allows for a truly 100% independent vertical stack (aside from coupling against business models) for purposes of developing various pieces of business functionality. This is, in my view, is the perfect ideal of 'microservice' architecture. One big folder called services, one class per 'microservice', one SQLite database per class, one collection of mappers per class, etc. I honestly feel like we have settled on the perfect grain for our codebase structure (at least in C#/.NET Core land). The benefit in our world is that instead of HTTP-based RPC, we are doing direct method invocation throughout. We also use Blazor in order to extend this concept as close to the screen as technically feasible.