Switch? They're not mutually exclusive.

It took me a few attempts. What eventually worked was just getting used to one major feature of it, barfing and slurping, and after that it all clicked.

Instead of paredit, I use adjust-parens with Evil and bind << and >> to lisp-indent-adjust-parens and lisp-dedent-adjust-parens.

lispy+lispyville works well for a similar functionality.

I use it on Doom Emacs, which configures everything for me.