I, unsurprisingly, have some thoughts on this 🙂 The function colour problem is very real, and I do think that the idea of making absolutely everything async is probably not sensible at this point; a lot of code is perfectly fine as it is, and we don’t have the people to do such a big overhaul and then test it right now anyway. I do think, though, that a fully async ORM is worth the cost still; Django is more and more used as a place to tie together a lot of API and database calls ...| Django Forum