Thanks! This is a great, thought-provoking answer. I've only worked with variants of paxos which were greatly simplified, and wondered how Raft actually simpli

Thanks! This is a great, thought-provoking answer. I've only worked with variants of paxos which were greatly simplified, and wondered how Raft actually simplified things here. I feel like Raft, despite being easier to explain quickly, really doesn't seem much simpler than a basic explanation of Paxos. But perhaps that's because of what I've already worked with. I've got an itch to explore Viewstamped Replication as well...