I find myself writing at least 5-10 times as much code compared to Python/Django. With the Django ORM once you design your models you already have at least 80% of the logic for a CRUD REST API, form validation, CRUD admin interface (if you want that), and you can easily integrate all sorts of third party features for almost no effort. Migrations are a bit saner because of the App separation, data migrations are a possible.
You can achieve nearly the same thing by creating your Entities, generating migration from them with a single command, migrating your db with another one(or from code on startup) and returning them directly from Controller's method using DB Context. It's honestly not that much more work. It's far from a recommended approach though... Granted, Django Admin is pretty nice and although there are few nugets that try to achieve that I never found them as easy as in Django.
At least in the codebase I work on, I need to create an IRequest/IRequestHandler/Validator class triplet for every single endpoint, each in its own files, including all the lines with single braces and using statements for all the magic extension methods and dependency injection constructors. And often I need to add new ViewModels because the mapping doesn't work correctly.
Well this is because you decided yourself to go that route. Amount of work would be the same in Django if you decided on this particular architecture there.
It doesn't change the fact that if you want to do a simple CRUD you can do it equally easy in almost every popular web framework these days, just yolo that shit into your Controller and be done with it. What you're doing is way more maintainable though, especially if you work with an actual team.
