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It can be used as the main backend for an API just fine. It's also very easy to override just about every piece of what DRF offers. This is pure, unsubstantiated, subjective FUD.

Use the tool that you are most comfortable with, change it up if/when you get big or busy enough to have to. There are some huge sites running Django/DRF successfully.

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Well it really depends on the data you have. It can easily be substantiated, it's like saying I want to compete in F1 let me put the biggest engine in this tanker truck, in other words do you need most of Django's layers for an API? That's why I said if you're "planning to go API first" (Note: I love Django for building sites not APIs)

This analogy really isn't useful at all. You aren't ever going to use 100% of every tool your site is built on, and there's no shame in that. If you don't end up using everything that Django does, no big deal.

There are some incredibly large sites with rich APIs that run Django very successfully, so I'm thinking that this is all some pretty subjective generalization that is of limited use.

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