I feel like cute attempts to explain Raft should come with a huge disclaimer. Although Raft authors claim it is easier to understand, and there are various pop explanations of Raft which make it seem easy to understand, in studies Raft and Paxos understanding among students is about the same, with the great majority of students failing to understand either one. Importantly, students who say subjectively Raft is easier to understand than Paxos are less likely to understand Raft than students who say they are equally hard.