It's invaluable in many ways for me and my clients and it's saved me countless hours of developing things from scratch. I think the animosity towards "over use

It's invaluable in many ways for me and my clients and it's saved me countless hours of developing things from scratch. I think the animosity towards "over use" by some of the core community is misguided. The continued work that goes towards improving extensibility and features is surely a sign that someone finds it worth contributing towards. And the number of projects on Github or Django Packages that hook into the admin have to be written by somebody.