Yes, which goes in line with the argument that claiming that it's "the most deployed" as proof of superiority or suitability for any use case is equivalent to claiming the same for Internet Explorer. It's the most deployed because it's bundled in a lot of systems, not because people are purposefully using it as a DBMS.
It’s widely deployed as a local DB for local apps like phones, desktops, and web browsers. But it’s not the most used for distributed, concurrent web apps, which db servers were designed for. Maybe people are talking past each other, but that’s the debate I see.
We recently just partitioned the data into many SQLite databases and got away with it. It's telemetry data from IoT devices: one device, one database. Backups are an easy rsync job now instead of streaming a multi gigabyte database with compression that take hours. Reporting will just open each database and aggregate multi device data into another database (Duckdb, SQLite or something else, we'll see). Duckdb is not readable when locked so it's probably also going to be SQLite. Even it it's going to spit out JSON it will go into SQLite rows instead of many files.