Agreed. My point was that you'd probably know more about the relationship between the projects than some rando. I've seen plenty of misinformation from people making claims about projects that don't hold.
And yeah, I've found great crates from smaller projects. That said, I'm always worried about an xz issue where a small, impactful project gets targeted by malware authors and their changes get in because there's not enough people involved in the project. Or maybe it's as simple as the lone maintainer stopping work on the project and the project stagnates. If it's not something I'm willing to step in and maintain or replace myself, I'm going to go with a larger project, even if it's not quite what I'm looking for, and DB libraries definitely fall into that category.