How kind of you to include me here! I'm glad to see that you took my words in the spirit intended, and that you have stuck around. You have the right attitude towards Medium, and maybe the changes are really just Medium's way of culling the writers who have come to have an unearned sense of entitlement, the users who've learned how to game the system with self-cannibalizing clickbait - to make room for the working professionals and the eager novices who have a better attitude towards writing and towards work in general. Change can be painful, but I hope - I HOPE - that Medium will survive and thrive.