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Chill out. This is a design choice to make it more viable to be used in dynamically typed languages. It's maybe not the design choice everyone would make, but it's not, like, insane: this is how all variables in Python/JavaScript/Ruby/whatever works.

If you really care about this, adding strongly typed columns is trivial: https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=sqlite_3.27&fiddle=9baffa184672a7...



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