Django Admin Deux: Bringing Django's Admin Back to Django

Yes! I completely share the vision here.

Django's built-in admin is one of the framework's killer features. It's the thing that makes people go "wow"; and it's been doing that for the past 20 years. It's saved countless hours of building CRUD interfaces.

In this age of endless JS framework churn, it's surprising how much I see others reimplementing the Django admin badly. I've never found anything quite as productive and featureful.

But I think the article hits on the nail the things that need to be addressed to unlock it further. It's surprising how great the admin was when it was released, but it has done very conservative updates in a lot of time, because IMHO it's held back by the architectural problems described in the article.

(Despite the architectural problems, the fact that so few things come close is telling.)

I see other issues with Django, but mostly I think I can tackle them, although lately I have had little excuse to work on that.