I don't understand it. And I'm a web developer. I don't understand the documentation, I don't understand the problem it's trying to solve and I don't understand how it's going about a solution of any problem. The closest I've come to an understanding is that it's meaningless make-work for a ledger of http calls that are not giving any security.
I've had my hair on fire because my app code shit the bed. I've never ever (throughout 15 years of using it in everything I do) had to even think about Postgres, and yes, I always set it up self-hosted. The only concern I've had is when I had to do migrations where I had to upgrade PG to fit with upgrades in the ORM database layer. Made for some interesting stepping-stone upgrades once in a while but mostly just careful sysadmining.
I'm speaking within the framework of what is sensible, given the science. If you want the trip to have more lasting effect then according to the research you should have someone guiding you along. It kinda makes sense too. You can spend a trip looking at butterflies and admiring them taking with you from the experience a certain wonder for the beauty of nature. It might even help you with your depression somewhat but will not substitute professional guidance that will help you confront what is an underlying psychological issue actually causing the depression.
No regulatory body watching the production is one thing. You are buying from criminals. I'm all-in on the legalization of all drugs if only for the consumer protections it would introduce. Then there's the issue of harm-reduction for those that truly have a dependency/addiction problem AND generally freedom for freedoms sake.
The psilocybin treatment is also reported as way more effective when administered as part of therapy. You are supposed to trip under the guidance of a professional.
Interesting metric actually. Building Windows takes 12 hours [1]. It's a bit harder to find metrics on Linux. You can build the kernel in 60 seconds apparently [2] but that is not a complete operating system.
I wrote a CMS for a large newspaper where I deployed new code on almost a daily basis using Django(uWSGI)-redis-PostgreSQL-Celery. 4 developers were active at the time. Requirements were not set in stone, we tested tons of stuff out and iterated every aspect of the site both on the development and operations side. Django was never the problem during those 18 months.
Django is like any other framework/language. Bad programmers can make a hash of it with ill-conceived ideas.