You're right, it is common and it's easy to forget that. Python in 2007 was Django, web.py, Subway, Turbogears, Pylons, Werkzeug, Zope, and a bunch of tools a

You're right, it is common and it's easy to forget that. Python in 2007 was Django, web.py, Subway, Turbogears, Pylons, Werkzeug, Zope, and a bunch of tools a lot of people have never heard of competing for space. Who needed all of those frameworks anyway? It took awhile but slowly what works and what doesn't was figured out and we've got better approaches. Web programming circa 2007 was by its nature simpler and despite that the Python community (which is a blip compared to the JS community today) churned out a lot of stuff. You can still build websites like it is 1999 but you've got a lot of other options now, too. Use the best parts and dip your toes into that stream of new stuff when you feel like it. Competition and progress beat the hell out of stagnation though.