A minimal reproduction of a problem using Django and Dynaconf, having INSTALLED_APPS in both settings.py and from a merged dynaconf settings file. The virtualenv dependencies are in requirements.txt
$ python -V
Python 3.10.12
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy