If you want to just prefetch everything throughout a project or just on a per-Queryset basis, all that is coming in the next release of Django.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/#model-fi...

That's the great thing about Django, it's been around so long and the quality bar is so high that eventually all the major rough edges get sanded away usually in a really well considered manner.