In my opinion, a full travel, mechanical switch is the best. If you got used to on laptop keyboards, or to ****ty rubber domes, you might find typing easier on these, and even faster too, as mechanicals require a quite different typing technique, to really get the advantages of it.
On a chiclet stlye keyboard, or on a rubber dome keyboard, you have to actually bottom out the keyswitch to make it activated, make your keypress register on the computer. That's actually because of the basic working principles of the rubber domes, as the domes have a conductive pad inside them, which sits over a membrane - in rarer cases a PCB - and closes the circuit, when your press collapses the dome.
On a mechanical keyboard, like your MX Silent Red one, the switches work completely differently, which causes them to activate the key partway through the keytravel. In the case of Cherry MX, the keys activate at 2 mm, and the complete keytravel is usually 4 mm. (This might differ from switch to switch) That's because of the workings of an electromechanical switch, as Cherry MX like switches have 2 contact leafs inside, separated by the stem's plastic protrusions. When you press the stem through the keycap, the protrusions go out of the way, and the leafs close the circuit, due to the springyness of the metal leafs.
Yes, 4 mm keytravel is a huge waste if you bottom out the keys with mechanical switches, like you have to with rubber domes. That's where touch typing comes into the story. Basically, you have to relearn typing, if you want to be effective and fast using a mechanical keyboard. Touch typing means, you don't press the keys all the way down, like you used to do it on rubber domes, instead, you just press the keys till they pass their activation point, and no further. Yes, this is hard to master - in my opinion, it is the hardest with linear switches like reds... - but if you mastered this technique, it allows you much more relaxed typing, much faster, much more accurate. If you don't hammer the keys, like you used to on laptops, your fingers will not slip out of the keycaps. You should check out the "official" way to type too, because staggered keycaps, and tapered keycap tops actually assisting the method, you was intended to type like. The classic keyboard design is a well tought out invention, but you have to use it correctly.
I would reccomend you reconsidering your switch choice too. As you described, you have the fear of accidental keypresses with reds, which is a clear symptom of the switch is being too light for you. It won't help with your slipping fingers problem too, as the switches giving in too easy for you. I have this problem with reds too, as I'm a quite heavy handed person, due to playing electric guitar. (You have to press the strings pretty heavily if you think about it, you're playing on metal strings.) There are much heavier switches out on the market, my lightest switch choice is MX Blue. I can rest my fingers on them, without the fear of unwanted keypresses. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think a linear switch is ideal for learning touch type either, as you get no feedback where the switch is being activated. (Althrough, some experienced typists prefer linear swithces.) If you used to rubber domes, you should get a tactile, or a clicky switch. I can't recommend Cherry MX Brown as a tactile switch, as they are very lightly tactile, rubber domes are much more tactile in my opinion. My swicth choices - if we just include the choiche of Cherry swithces, as they dominate 90% of the market - would be vintage Cherry MX Blacks for linears, Cherry MX Clears for tactile, and Cherry MX Blue for cliclky switches, due to my hard pressing hands. (BTW, much better switches existing than Cherries, for exampe Honewell hall effect switches, Alps SKCL, optical switches for linears, Alps SKCM, some nice rubber domes like BTC and Topre for tactiles, IMB beam/bucking springs and Alps SCKM swithces if you want clicky switches, but these switches much harder to get hold off. Buckling springs and Mathias [modern Alps clones, as Apls keyboard switches no longer produced from the end of 90's] switches are still produced today, they worth a checking out.)
In summary, try out different switches than reds - even than Cherry MX - find the ones suiting your needs the best, and improve your typing thecnique, and your realitionship with mechanical keyboards will be much better.
Althrough I think, nothing wrong about loving chichlet keys, everyone has a different taste for stuff.
P.S.: If you don't mash your keyboard, you also don't need dampened switches too, like a silent red.
