I've only recently come back to it, and I do hope they continue to add more batteries to their "batteries included" framework over time. I was surprised just how much stuff I had to add to my little project that will require updating _outside_ the main framework, eg.:
* django-components for little template partials (I'm not sure the new partials feature is robust enough to replace this)
* django-(configurator,split-settings,pick-your-poison-here) for more robust settings management
* structlog for much better logging (feels like this should get baked into Python's stdlib...)
* debug-toolbar
* dj-database-url for parsing database URLs (should be baked in!)
* django-money
There's plenty of other deps that are less annoying/surprising (eg. Sentry, granian, Tailwind), but the set above feel like more or less like they should be baked in, and (to my mind) don't represent an inordinate amount of work to adopt.
Other than that, it's been a real pleasure coming back to it, and I'm excited for its continuation.
EDIT -- oh, and built-in static types, stubs and stubs-ext were a bit of a nightmare to get working well.