I agree. I don't know where the lack of vision comes from, but it shows in Medium. I don't think it's as bad as HuffPo (I blogged there too until the day they sold to AOL), but I fear for the future of Medium, as I wrote a few weeks ago: https://medium.com/p/can-medium-avoid-becoming-just-another-website-eb7ef855d068. Interestingly, that is the only story of mine not "curated" in the past three months. But that's the issue in my mind: "curated," "distributed," and "featured" have no clear meaning or criteria anymore.