And probably because for quick things like that you’re already working in a “pipeline”, where you first want to see some of the results so you output with SQLite, and then add more to the pipeline. Similarly, I often do ‘cat file | grep abc’ instead of just grep, might be probably out of habit.
I found that this is actually a good use case for LLMs. You can probably paste that one liner up there and ask it to create the corresponding SQL query.