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Perhaps you've been luckier than I have in your experience with Rails and Django codebases! I have seen a tremendous amount of "not doing it right" and "architecting things in such a way that it makes it nearly impossible to 'do it right' when adding or changing any behavior."

With any of the popular React server-side rendering frameworks, getting up and running with a basic web site with some pages and HTML content is not significantly harder (and in fact not that different at all) than doing the same in Django or Rails.