Without persistent volumes, every deployment of the app may require the SQLite data to be restored from S3, which can take time if database size is large. With PVC, regular app deployments use existing database, only a disaster recovery scenario restores from S3.

Yes, it feels magical to just recreate your namespace or even create a new K8s cluster and see all your apps (from OpenRun metadata) and app data restored automatically.

I have no use case where I store a TB of data in a sqlite let alone few GB. Currently this checks out and restore is few seconds.