[kstrauser]

I've summarized this elsewhere:

Django is really great for writing Django apps. It's not great for writing other kinds of apps.

If your app is a CRUD interface over a relational DB, it's awesome and I mean that sincerely. I'll happily reach for it instead of reinventing that nicely crafted wheel.

If your app isn't -- say, it's backed with noSQL or maybe is a frontend over a bunch of backend API calls such that you're not using its ORM or its permission model -- then it feels like a box of pain.