my limited research tells me that raft does everything that paxos does and doesn't require reading multiple 'raft isn't hard' posts/papers to actually understand what it does (find out yourself: http://raftconsensus.github.io/).
Any experience with it?
not directly, no. indirectly i use Riak at work and it works. i hope i won't have to, because distributed systems are hard and even though the hacker in me would love to do this stuff, the responsible man says 'don't do this yourself', same with crypto.