I've asked this question too and what I think what is going on is that the python dev community is still pretty active - and people love to change things, get t

I've asked this question too and what I think what is going on is that the python dev community is still pretty active - and people love to change things, get their code and ideas into the language. I think they've been pretty good about rejecting a lot of the really awful stuff, but not as good maybe at thinking about what is really necessary. And this type of discussion makes me think about Django - it used to be a nice little simple framework, then it got a big community around it and grew every nature of features to such a point that I think nobody should actually use it. The code ends up being pretty awful and I think probably the rise of Flask coincides with Django getting too big and too complex over a period of years.