Async Django: a solution in search of a problem?

Echoing the sentiment - I've worked on small and large Django projects for over a decade, and still to this day I have no need for async in such projects. If I chose Django, it's because I need a solid server-first, client-minimal CRUD setup. If I need complex stuff I'll spawn a background task.

For projects that are more async-heavy, like more complex data pipelines, I'll choose something like FastAPI and hook into it whatever libraries I need to do async I/O (networking, DB, etc.), but in Django those just feel wrong and unnecessary.