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I kind of agree, though at least Django with type stubs gets me 95% of the way there.

At the end of the day I end up writing a service layer over everything so I'm not super bugged by most of this. But it's busywork when first starting up a project.

You should check out litestar

It's essentially what you described and it's growing in popularity.

Thanks, ill check it out!

It's really nothing like Django, which is a full stack development framework. This is more akin to Django REST Framework or Django Ninja which are REST API frameworks that sit on top of Django.

It's also super clunky if you get into certain advanced things because it's built on top of Starlette and piggybacks off much of that. Want to adjust how many background threads you want running? Oh wait, you can't, it's a Starlette setting that's not really exposed.