Hobbyist dev here, love Django and it’s my go to for rapid prototyping and have built a couple web apps with it. I love the batteries included approach over flask and the ORM is simply amazing. I tried a couple times to use DFR but never really stuck with it, my reason was that my html templates have a lot of dependency on views and I just find the idea of using DRF to decouple front end and back end hard. Not a DRF limitation but mine alone. I might just back and revisit it again. Kudos and Best wishes to the team on the release!!
You might find it easier to do piecemeal at first. Start by identifying where you have a pure data dependency that’s currently doing a round trip to render HTML redundantly or unnecessarily, and think about whether it can be served as both HTML and pure data via content negotiation. If it can, then you have the flexibility to decouple that dependency at your leisure.
