Given the functionality Django offers, the "cost" of the growing pains has been well worth it. Especially for the 1.7 upgrade that happened a while back (when t

Given the functionality Django offers, the "cost" of the growing pains has been well worth it. Especially for the 1.7 upgrade that happened a while back (when they introduced the new migrations framework). Relative to modern JS projects, where whole frameworks are switched out quarterly, maintaining a Django project is trivial. I really like the new URL syntax they introduced. I'd been relying on 3rd party libraries like Django REST for years at this point, because the raw regex URL syntax was always annoying and verbose. The new syntax looks well executed. I've been working with 1.11 and Python 3, so I'm looking forward to upgrading soon.