[mdaniel]

I wish; KIP-500[1] was the "let's use native Raft" implementation but I have never once in my life seen anyone using Kafka in KIP-500 mode

1: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/kafka/kip-500:+r...

[enether]

Confluent has shared they've migrated thousands of Kafka clusters (their whole cloud fleet) to KIP-500

https://www.confluent.io/blog/zookeeper-to-kraft-with-conflu...

[62951413]

Very few people want to re-create their production AWS MSK cluster from scratch. And that's the only way currently. MSK can usually upgrade Kafka brokers with minor performance degradation but not for this particular change.