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I wouldn't count Flask as simpler than Django. These 5 lines hello world examples are incredibly misleading.

Exactly.

You end up cobbling together half a dozen plugins (auth, forms, orm, admin) and adding dependencies that, albeit useful, are complex themselves: Celery, SQLAlchemy, etc.

Having a single source of documentation and components perfectly integrated out of the box make a huge difference.

Django is an enormous project that dwarfs Flask in size and complexity.

Yes, Django takes care of the complexity so the developer does not have to. Flask is bare bones, so the complexity is left to the developer. I have done similar applications and websites with both and I know which one I'm more productive with. But of course YMMV and we are all lucky to have the choice.

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