I am a long time Django dev, I have been for ~8 years now. I am also a contractor and have been so for roughly the same period. Every time I have moved from one client to another, it has been a recurring theme that there are some (many) devs in the client company who consider Django "bloated" - yes that exact word has been used to describe Django - but few if any can quantify or even identify the "bloat". I realise I am not an objective observer on this matter, I like Django and I like DRF even more so. 
So I am hoping some folks here at HN can shed more light on the subject of Django's bloat? For the sake of simplicity, let's confine the discussion to comparisons with other Python web frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, bottle etc