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I agree, I find doing this with DRF very easy and had the opposite with TastyPie doing stuff I did not want or need. Having some ORM integration is nice; there are a number of situations where it's easy to use your ORM safely and get stuff done very quickly (eg. basic CRUD stuff for instance)

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"Basic CRUD" is basic only in most trivial situations, which by themselves are rare. Much more often you need to create a set of related objects. With this "basic CRUD" you have many points where network can break, and network programming has one very important principle: network always breaks, so the program has to survive in such case.

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