I upvoted this, but just to play devil's advocate: The web app only needs to talk to the ML model through an interface, so it doesn't need to have access to ML

I upvoted this, but just to play devil's advocate: The web app only needs to talk to the ML model through an interface, so it doesn't need to have access to ML libraries. In addition, using a non-Python-based web app will increase throwayweb_dev's knowledge surface area.