[physicsguy]

Why would Django move away from an ORM that works, at scale, in millions of deployed websites? They'd have to support both for many years in any case.

> a sizeable share of the community deems inferior

Well, yeah, SQLAlchemy is standalone, you can use it in a lot more situations than Django's ORM in practice, because you're not tied to using it in a Django site. But that doesn't mean it's "better"