The Refactor

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Let's face it: the current state of this project’s code is not so good.

Contributions over time have lacked consistency, leading to duplicated implementations and a fragmented structure that makes maintenance and development difficult.

The combination of Python, Django, and object-oriented design has introduced unnecessary complexity, and without long-term technical stewardship, the project has become hard to extend.

Another pressing issue is the number of long-standing bugs. For a project that has been in existence for over six years, there remain issues that ideally should have been addressed very early on. Many of these are not superficial problems that tools or automated testing could easily detect, but deeper logical flaws that only become evident when the affected code paths are used.

Additionally, it seems that the project has not fully embraced the design principles of Django REST Framework (DRF). For example, serializers are often used only for traffic handling, while much of the core business logic resides in views.py, which goes against DRF’s intended design practices.

To summary, a refactor is inevitable, and to make sure I’m not just another person who criticizes without acting, I’ll do it myself.