I'm split on Django--it's ok but I don't love it.

I don't think it's chaotic. I won't deny it's somewhat slow however usually anything performance sensitive gets shoved in a native code extension anyway.

As for packaging, I haven't had any problems with poetry or uv. The only time I ever had issues was with Windows in corporate environments where wheels were unavailable and it was also basically impossible to get the right toolchain installed for native code. However, not being able to install a compiler is not really a Python problem

Claude Code has a setting to change the git template so it doesn't attribute itself or you can also commit manually.