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If the API is tightly coupled to the data, just use the ORM, Luke. Django, DRF, Django-Filters, DRF-Spectacular. DRF has gotten more things right than wrong.

What DRF and Django get right is that the DB is the utimate schema. Why be afraid of that?

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DRF is also great because it allows flexibility when you dont want the API to mirror the DB, which is a lot of the time.

DB is not always the schema. An abstraction layer is essential

And DRF still gives you that.

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