This seems unnecessarily antagonistic - maybe you’re haven’t fully explored what it offers. FastApi is very transparent that it is a layer built on top of Starl

This seems unnecessarily antagonistic - maybe you’re haven’t fully explored what it offers. FastApi is very transparent that it is a layer built on top of Starlette https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/features/#starlette-features https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/features/#starlette-features. It also layers in several other features at really useful abstraction levels by bringing in Pydantic, and I think the dependency injection system and OpenApi integration was mostly built by Sebastian. It’s got fantastic documentation and tutorials. For a small dev or full stack team, and especially someone just starting out, it feels unparalleled in what it gives you out of the box.