It's a ton of extra work. It's like 10x slower than using the Django ORM. Let's say it takes you ten seconds to write that query. I wrote it in one second with

It's a ton of extra work. It's like 10x slower than using the Django ORM. Let's say it takes you ten seconds to write that query. I wrote it in one second with the ORM and my IDE. That adds up, with almost no downside most of the time.