That's actually the root of my issue with django. It's a vanilla MVC framework with a scaffolding admin interface and an ORM layer. It's popular because it's relatively easy to get started ("the Rails of python"), and thus too often it gets picked by default. The problem is that too often my customers have already picked it, have run headlong into development, then I walk in and have to ask why they picked django when their requirements don't match any of its architecture assumptions.