This is what happens when a public service is monetized. Back when all Medium articles were free and unlimited, I loved the platform; then they did a "bait & switch" and allowed only 2 free reads per month unless one coughed up a monthly fee. I wrote https://jessh-brewer.medium.com/mediums-bait-and-switch-cdc6019ab21c but I still put up some essays and rants and poems, because that's what I do. The same commercialization and blind greed destroyed Quora, once the prince of Q&A sites. Value is not always measurable in dollars, folks!