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> Most popular solutions like Zip, gzip, tar, RAR, or 7-Zip are near or more than three decades old.

If I can't extract .pack archives 3 decades from now, the use of SQLite 3 will be the reason.

What makes you think that? It's a very widely-used and stable format, cited as a great format for archival use.

The Library of Congress has a page that goes into some depth with respect to their sustainability analysis for the format.