I assume they are talking about how Django contains lots of stuff by default, whereas many other "frameworks" include much less. E.g. Flask doesn't come with a

I assume they are talking about how Django contains lots of stuff by default, whereas many other "frameworks" include much less. E.g. Flask doesn't come with a database layer, or session management, or pretty much anything. Now if that constitutes "bloat" or "fully-featured so I don't need to coble lots of libraries together" is a matter of taste and use case.