Comment by petcat

It's why I've always eschewed stuff like flask even when I felt like Django was going to be overkill. The problem is that, especially for web apps, everybody needs the same stuff. You need to handle cookies and forms and auth. You need to be able to inspect and manage your data. You need to be able to do tokens and password resets.

At the end of the day. You end up cobbling together a bespoke, worse version of Django anyway.