Raft has spawned a huge ecosystem of consensus libraries across various languages. This has 'democratized' the consensus algorithm and has made it easier to build distributed systems.

Is it perfect? No, as another comment here points out, Raft might not be as fast as some other more complicated Paxos variants but that's okay for most use cases and is much easier to reason about.

To give an example of how powerful this is, I started implementing high availability for an opensource instant search engine I've been working on (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and was able to get a basic clustering solution working in just a few days.

Pre-raft this would have taken a few weeks or would have required an external coordinator like Zookeeper. This way, Raft has unlocked so many opportunities.