Thank you for sharing your authentic story. Glad to know I'm not alone in this puddle. I've had my ups and downs with Medium, but as you pointed out, it has never been worse than this. Medium must have reached its rock bottom. And as writers we nourish the root of the tree but being treated like a rotten fruit. I also recently wrote about my experience on Medium: https://medium.com/illumination/is-writing-on-medium-still-worth-it-f0b9f4498e79