My argument about the "complexity" of DRF is that you need to use its serializers (frankly if you're just returning raw dicts then you're already not far off fr

My argument about the "complexity" of DRF is that you need to use its serializers (frankly if you're just returning raw dicts then you're already not far off from built-in, generic Django function-based views) which I guess some people may consider complex especially if the data you're representing doesn't originate from models.