I thought Kafka ditched the zookeeper

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

	▲	enether 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.