I completely agree. My favorite framework is Flask, but I have to work with Django professionally. I find that using Flask produces much cleaner, readable code

I completely agree. My favorite framework is Flask, but I have to work with Django professionally. I find that using Flask produces much cleaner, readable code (depending on the engineer, of course). When I'm working with Django code, I find myself opening two to four different files just to make a tiny change in some restful API. I find myself doing the same just trying to read some code or trace down a bug or even a utility function. I find that the object oriented nature of Django also tends to produce overly complex codebases for the things that people try to create. It hides code in favor of magic which just complicates the development process.