[tripzilch]

I find the same thing with Django, btw. Once a project grows beyond a (slightly less) trivial app, that is, at some point your project is going to want to do something difficult and/or unique, you wander outside of the wonderful things that Django provides, and you find yourself needing to build or seek out complex functionality by hand again, and sometimes having Django work against you.

At least, that's my experience.

So next time, for a not-too-large scale project, I will indeed try a more barebones framework such as Flask, to see if it matters much.

Django does get you off to a running start, but as soon as you want something it can't do, you find yourself clawing through its entrails again.