Exactly. I have used Django quite a bit over the years and have maintained a few prebuilt (by previous developers) Flask apps for clients. Recently I had a need

Exactly. I have used Django quite a bit over the years and have maintained a few prebuilt (by previous developers) Flask apps for clients. Recently I had a need for a small web service so I thought I'd use Flask. After days of trying to get something simple running and installing numerous packages, I gave up on Flask. I had a server with everything I needed in less than a day with Django. Some of the design decisions of Flask just don't seem logical, such as using the db instance when defining model parent classes. Makes for strange contortions when defining multiple model files to prevent circular references or db not found errors. db = SQLAlchemy(app) class User(db.Model): ...