To you it may be "illegitimate mandates" but to a django dev it's a blissful ignorance. You might just have to agree to disagree.
Let's say you want to add a column to your database. Because the django ORM is so popular and monolithic, it has amazing tools for the job that do it auto-magically when you modify models.py. And that's just one facet of many.
For some folk, the flexibility of Pyramid is nothing but a bother.
No, because you don't have to use the flexibility. Pyramid comes with defaults. You can blissfully just use what comes out of the box, or you can, relatively easily, use something else. There is no cost to the programmer who simply wants to ignorantly use the default tool set.
Let's say you want to add a column to your database. Because the django ORM is so popular and monolithic, it has amazing tools for the job that do it auto-magically when you modify models.py. And that's just one facet of many.
For some folk, the flexibility of Pyramid is nothing but a bother.