Even if they don't, I at least hope they'll provide an alternative. indexedDB is hardly usable let alone a replacement for anything.

I think an independent implementation would help. Personally, I think SQLite is a unique project which is of such high quality that independence is unimportant, but others do not see it that way.

We now have three steaming piles of indexedDB garbage that are still (last I checked) implemented on top of sqlite anyway. I don't see how anyone could think the world became a better place after the change.