[SadWebDeveloper]

IMHO... Django hold a high standard in terms for projects running beyond the infamous 5+ years of support... still have some projects that with minimal changes (mostly configs and dependencies that got redundant/integrated into django -like choices-) are working with the latest version, surely 5.0 will not be that drastic if you are already doing software "the django way".

Things that are Django achilles heel are not developing software "the django way", mostly anything that needs some client-side to work is a PITA, requires lots of rewriting and custom templates that at some point you gotta start looking django as a backend more like the full stack framework that was meant to be. Also anything related onto getting things to production is another PITA that hasn't been solved or touched in years, dx deployment is one of those things almost any JS Framework out there is doing things better than what django supports.

[dexwiz]

Isn't Developer DX mostly a way to get developers locked into your platform? I have avoided Next.js for this reason, it seems like just a way to funnel developers towards Vercel. DX is largely a service specific problem since its coupled to the service you are deploying to.

[yunohn]

Django is free, in all definitions and purposes of the word. No agenda, no VC funding, no BS.