If you just need CRUD, define your models in Django and use the admin site.
Everything after the "but..." is beyond the CRUD. If you choose to use TailWind or React or whatever to write the frontend and it increases the complexity of your app, that's your (or your client's) choice.
That said, Django was around before you started programming, so yeah perhaps the landscape (including the fads) got a bit more complicated in the past decade. But... I was there during the PHP4 era and writing a CRUD app with forms back then was much more painful than it is now... You either have to invent your own web framework or copy&paste a lot of hand crafted HTML and SQL. I tried both.
Everything after the "but..." is beyond the CRUD. If you choose to use TailWind or React or whatever to write the frontend and it increases the complexity of your app, that's your (or your client's) choice.
That said, Django was around before you started programming, so yeah perhaps the landscape (including the fads) got a bit more complicated in the past decade. But... I was there during the PHP4 era and writing a CRUD app with forms back then was much more painful than it is now... You either have to invent your own web framework or copy&paste a lot of hand crafted HTML and SQL. I tried both.