I don't have loads of Django experience, but I have done some Django and some raw SQL + Flask and had good experiences with both. I think I agree with you. A l

I don't have loads of Django experience, but I have done some Django and some raw SQL + Flask and had good experiences with both. I think I agree with you. A lot of the benefits that you get from Django and its plugin ecosystem come from having the models available as a common representation of the database that you can be transformed and inspected by various other tools. If you don't want to use Django models, then I think Django is the wrong option. Flask is a pretty great option. FastAPI adds some stuff that I really like and does it well, but is still only a year or two old, so might be too risky for some projects.