[Vervious]

Raft has a problem where, in the protocol description, sometimes I have no idea why some line is there, but if you take it out the protocol comes to a grinding halt... it's really a mumble jumble. It has good intuition, but the details are really messy, it's edge cases all the way down.

Whereas I think each line of pseudocode in Paxos is much more motivated.

In other words, if a philosopher had to design a crash-fault protocol from scratch, without having seen any before, I think 80% of the time it would look exactly like Paxos.