[andyjones11]

The way I've seen this play out in reality is that a lot of the "presentational logic" required by the templates gets computed in the "Django Views" layer (akin to the "controller" layer in traditional MVC). So in the end Django views both perform business/service logic and presentational logic.

I took it for granted after doing Django for several years but after doing a lot of web development in a more explicit MVC paradigm (Elixir and Phoenix in this case), my old Django code didn't really separate the web layer from the business logic layer. If I write more Django in the future I'll definitely be more aware of this but in many cases the framework (Templates, Forms, Models, Django-apps) don't really encourage this type of in-app architecture.