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No you can setup everything (models and db migrations) with code, no need to use the gui, it's just here for "convienence" if you want it

I wouldn't group it with Django. It's a very simple but also well-done CMS. It is not as capable as something like Wagtail, Payload, or Craft.

I’m not quite sure what your point is, but it’s designed as a friendly but powerful GUI to quickly get a backend up and running.

It might not fit your use case, which is fine, but there are a lot of use cases it does fit, and my original point was that it’s more than you might think.

I wouldn’t really describe it as niche and limiting though, that sounds quite dismissive of what is actually a pretty impressive piece of software.

It’s niche and limiting in the same way that Supabase and Firebase are niche and limiting.