Thank you for your words of support. If Medium were the lost cause, I would not be wasting my time posting here and writing about it.
I am a co-founder of Virtual Agora, https://virtualagora.us/, a new Medium publication intended to create a community where people of diverse opinions could intelligently discuss their differences. The nation needs it desperately. Subconsciously, most Americans yearn for that as well. Ergo, it should be commercially viable. I asked Ev to introduce Virtual Agora to the Medium members in one of their mass mailings, as they do for many other publications. He refused.
Please check my other recent articles about writing.