I'm using tortoise as my ORM; it feels like sqlmodels is worth exploring as an alternative -- sqlmodels is designed to integrate well with pydantic (so you DRY in messages) and with sqlalchemy (so you get their migration support).

I'm not sure if there's a fastapi / pydantic tool for generating form UX, but it might be doable to write one if not. (though styling could be tricky).

I notice myself still spending a lot of time writing basic CRUD routes. I don't know if this is a tools issue or just unavoidable.

I'm open to a tool like postgraphile to automate API on top of a DB schema, but I'm worried about the loss of control over messages, RBAC, and query design. I wish there were a python tool for mostly-declarative API route stubs -- would be simple to customize, and the purely-declarative routes could be shipped off to a postgraphile-like tool in the future.

I wish fastapi had better auth built in, but then again I wish this about django too -- I feel like I'm endlessly shopping for a third-party user auth server and haven't found it yet. Auth + admin were a huge investment at the beginning of my project, and in retrospect feels wasted.