I missed those first few years of Medium, before 2017. It’s too bad. The original CEO was a co-founder of Twitter and founder of Blogger who had some good ideas. He morphed into a fintech bro, alienated a chunk of major contributors who left the platform, and drove out some of his best employees by busting their attempts to unionize. Then in 2022 came the new CEO whose worldview is at odds with a platform for writers, and seems almost completely disconnected from what’s going on with Medium and especially with the people here.