I see that as a feature. Templates should not do much logic, so it's a good idea that the templating language is simple.
But you can always switch it for Jinja2, just a line in the settings file.
But you can always switch it for Jinja2, just a line in the settings file.
Another tip would be to give django-admin a try when building dashboard projects (you can customize the look and feel quite a bit, ours are usually unrecognizable).