[tedmiston]

It's more lightweight than Django until you add packages for all of the components you need to build a production-grade app. To get what Django has out of the box requires a half-dozen packages, and even with that Flask-Admin is super primitive compared to what Django Admin provides. I try to like Flask, and I currently run my small personal site in it, but almost every project I start in Flask, I end up rewriting in Django.

As far as building APIs goes, Django Rest Framework provides so much. I find myself reinventing a lot when I use Flask vs Django + DRF. Just my 2¢.