Linda, you nailed what I've been feeling. Medium seems to be on the road to emulating LinkedIn with coaching, self-help, marketing, heartfelt advice, subject matter experts, yadayadayada... And that's fine to have that. Some people like it, and they should get to read it. But what I love about Medium, and why I keep paying $5 a month even though I'm not writing that much here these days, is for the quirky, interesting, rare gem writers. All that self-help stuff you can find strewn across the internet on a million different blogs and websites. But if the unique voices are feeling as discouraged as it seems they are, what happens next? Do they all leave, and Medium is left only with a million "how I made X amount of dollars in a month" type articles? It's discouraging for sure.