[mikece]

While exact implementations depend on the site in question Django runs only on the server and React runs only on the browser. Dropping React to only use Django sounds like an airplane designer saying "let's skip adding the propellers for the demo and only install the engines."

(Or is the team saying they only want to emit static HTML or JSON from the server-side? Like I said the architect might be saying something I'm not getting here -- or maybe you might have mis-heard or mis-remembered what was said?)