I hope that the "Paxos vs Raft" debate can die down, now that engineers are learning TLA+ and distributed systems more thoroughly. These days we can design new protocols and prove their correctness, instead of always relying on academics. For example, at MongoDB we considered adopting the reconfiguration protocol from Raft, but instead we designed our own and checked it with TLA+. See "Design and Verification of a Logless Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol in MongoDB Replication" for details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11960.pdf
I hope that the "Paxos vs Raft" debate can die down, now that engineers are learning TLA+ and distributed systems more thoroughly. These days we can design new protocols and prove their correctness, instead of always relying on academics. For example, at MongoDB we considered adopting the reconfiguration protocol from Raft, but instead we designed our own and checked it with TLA+. See "Design and Verification of a Logless Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol in MongoDB Replication" for details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11960.pdf