[ac130kz]

Any change you make has to be atomic, or it is unable to detect the change, and you have to rely on manual migrations.

[WD-42]

What do you mean by this? Auto migrations detect changes in your models. I'm not sure what atomic means in this context.

[ac130kz]

Let's say you change some attribute and the name of a model, Django simply does not recognize it, nuking the whole attribute