Totally agree, Django's ORM is fantastic, and everything else is fine. Combine Django with Django REST Framework and you've got a great way to build an API in no time flat.

For projects that don't require an ORM, or work with databases that Django doesn't support, I'm not as big a fan of Django, however.

There's an idea floating around on my team right now that literally all of our projects, even non-webapps, should be Django (I got questions about my use of -m recently, was told a "management command" would have been better), so I'm sensitive to this "just use Django" advice, maybe.