> The inverse is long boilerplate code, setting up multiple services and factories and fooWidget stuff just to do a simple thing

Are you not talking about Java here? ;)

Clearer code makes it easier to reason and hence easier debugging. Correct me if I am wrong.

Also, it really depends on person to person on how they write the code. Django does not mean big boilerplate nor does Rails.

My main question was on performance. How do they stack up next to each other? Python3 with Django is really working well these days. You can also check out the performance improvement on Instagram because of it. https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/