.dump is more or less doing the same thing as the exporters. It's purely a SQLite3 shell command, rather than being available in their C API (which embedders like Workers use) so it would need the functionality written up rather than being something they can enable or use from SQLite.
The double-quoted string misfeature is now disabled by default for CLI buildsnevermind, thankfully that's gone in 3.41.0

user: token then you might read user and there's nothing, so you now have a cached 404.token: user, then there is no reason for you to read it before you've generated the token so it's more resistant to having cached 404's.d1api.first`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${id}`
.dumpuser: tokentoken: userd1api.first`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${id}`