Thanks so much for reading! I've even written a few articles about Medium, too. I really think a lot of it came down to peer pressure for me. I had this begrudging realization after awhile that "okay, I guess this is what people write on Medium." and a couple of the pieces didn't do terribly, but there's no satisfaction in publishing them. It makes for pretty soulless writing. I don't understand how people manage to publish those same sort of pieces again and again and again. It's definitely an issue Medium should address.