I love this.

I also wish that Django would provide native scaffolding a la Laravel and Rails.

Speaking as the author, I completely agree. The DEP provides both a shared API for existing libraries, but also the foundations for native background workers in Django - and it's going to be great!

https://github.com/realOrangeOne/django-tasks

I've been using Huey for this, works fine enough. But I'd welcome a good out of the box solution.