... then SQLite might be the right choice for you?
In all seriousness, so many use cases are met by SQLite on the low end, PostgreSQL on the high end, and dedicated KV stores like Elastic off to the side, that what is left for MySQL? When you have a write-heavy workload on a multi-TB dataset that needs to be sharded, with a schema that is "simple" but not so simple that it works with an actual KV store?