Wow. Not only did you manage to completely miss the point of that statement, but you cast it up as a hasty strawman to boot. I'm quite impressed.

The choice of fopen() and Oracle was meant to convey simplicity: SQLite solves problems on the simple end of the difficulty spectrum -- problems you would normally solve with fopen(). It is not for problems at the complex end, like Oracle. It's a simplified expression; reading it literally is foolish.