Whenever I see people still praising Django in 2019, I immediately know that their technical understanding of the current backend and ops technologies is years behind. Django is still okay for small and amateur projects but nothing more than that. It is a curse for a fast moving business.

EDIT: even though I stopped writing Django for 3 years now but here are some of my reasons as far as I can remember:

1. mediocre routing (no nesting, all routes have to be declared in one place)

2. mediocre middleware (middleware is global)

3. mediocre ORM (easy only for very easy stuff, more pain in the ass than writing raw SQL itself when it comes to complex aggregations and joins) not to mention some of the famous ORM bugs that have been open for like a decade

4. custom user model? good luck fighting with Django errors to make that happen

5. custom authentication? external authentication? good luck

6. Django is built for 2000s websites not REST/gRPC era

7. want to use graph databases? noSQL? good luck

8. external migration for SQL? oh god, prepare yourself for the mental hell

9. Django as far as I can tell still ONLY supports decoding "x-www-form-urlencoded" bodies, yeah no JSON, it's that pathetic

Django is very intrusive and is pain in the ass in a fast moving environment where you want to use microservices, external authentication/authorization, APIs, gRPC, etc... that's excluding all problems of Python itself. I totally recommend Typescript/Express or Golang for doing any kind of non trivial backend with fast moving environment/requirements currently