I agree; Django (and many ORMs) have taken the opinion that if you load N instances of a model, and then you load a related field on 1 of them, you likely only

I agree; Django (and many ORMs) have taken the opinion that if you load N instances of a model, and then you load a related field on 1 of them, you likely only want the 1 related field. If however they assumed that loading a related field implies you likely want all related fields, perhaps there’d be fewer instances of foot-gunning.