To answer Richard's question directly: I do not see the proposed change causing any hardship for me.
I happen to like static typing myself due to its ability to help prevent bad data from propagating, with explicit variadic data type for people that don't want to choose a more restrictive type, but SQLite already isn't statically typed, so this change won't make things any worse.
Under the circumstances, this change will actually be an improvement to useability as I see it.
We have round() or truncate() or CAST when we need integer division. -- Darren Duncan
