[code_biologist]

An analogy is "can you tell what problems Django solves that can't be handled by wsgi and psycopg?" Nothing fundamentally different, but life is a whole lot easier with Django. Honestly if you're doing data engineering and you haven't spent time with a good DAG runner, you're doing yourself a real disservice.

My sibling comment did a good job explaining, but the UI + configurable storage + configurable triggers all out of the box make life a lot easier.

[metadat]

Django is easier when you want to do things only the "Django" way. However once you need something done differently it quickly shows its truly rigid and brittle self, and you'll find yourself fighting a great and challenging battle.

[shrikant]

Perhaps unwittingly, you've hit upon people's exact frustrations with Airflow! :)