[philote]

> I'm legitimately asking: why would you use Flask instead of Django, even if you don't (but might) need the ORM, admin etc.?

If for some reason you wanted to use a noSQL database, Django's ORM and everything connected to it (like admin) won't work.

[chpmrc]

There are connectors for noSQL databases as well. Or it's surely easier to implement one than to reimplement everything else around the ORM.