[nojs]

FYI you can avoid the manual sprinkling of select_related somewhat with https://pypi.org/project/django-auto-prefetch/, which avoids the lowest hanging N+1 loops automatically. Definitely not a cure all but it helps.

[drcongo]

Customers who like django-auto-prefetch may also like django-zeal: https://pypi.org/project/django-zeal/

[pryelluw]

Yes, aware of this option. Thanks for posting it!