I'm guilty of doing what you describe. It wasn't until I moved away from Django for a bit, built a Flask app, and came back to Django that I finally understood

I'm guilty of doing what you describe. It wasn't until I moved away from Django for a bit, built a Flask app, and came back to Django that I finally understood what was going on. The approach that the article describes really reminded me of creating a Flask app. I would have learned Django MUCH faster with such an approach.