models/ORM Doctrine does better job - Agreed. admin interface / CRUD interface - Agreed. configuration - Agreed. forms system - Disagree, Django forms and ge

models/ORM Doctrine does better job - Agreed. admin interface / CRUD interface - Agreed. configuration - Agreed. forms system - Disagree, Django forms and generic views let you do the exact same thing. routing - Disagree. I've used several routing systems across web frameworks and it mostly comes down to a matter of taste. Django's system could probably be a little simpler (most of the time you don't need the full power of regexes to match simple numbers or string) but it gets the job done and stays out of my way. testing - Disagree. Why did they write their own testing framework (lime) when SimpleTest and PHPUnit already existed? framework vs API - Agreed. The added downside is that once a third party app makes it into Django core, it evolves much more slowly due to backwards compatibility issues.