[bluewalt]

> Django was rarely a hindrance.

+1 on this. Django scales pretty well when adopting a clean architecture like Django Model Behaviours with mixins.

> Otherwise, I've found its ORM quite powerful.

Same. In ten years, the only issue I had is with a very complex query that the ORM was not able to write properly. But a workaround existed.

I'm currently using FastAPI in a project. It's very enjoyable (especially with a strictly typed codebase) but I have to write lots of batteries by myself, which is not very productive (unless you keep this boilerplate code for future projects).