Django was the big one back then.

But it was not clear at all that Flask would be the other winner. There were a lot of articles discussing Flask vs Bottle vs web.py.

> like the javascript situation where there was genuine paralysis of choice on many fronts.

I think that's the perception from the outside. If you start a project, it's pretty clear what's the recommended stack of the day. Sure, next year might be different, but today it's React/Vite/Tailwind/...