I also upgraded as soon as the option rolled out to my account. I had about a day to think about it. There are several ways to look at it for example. 1) $5 for the amount of content I consume is very inexpensive. I pay $21 for my New York Times and The Athletic bundle. 2) I already make about $50 a month from Medium so not paying the extra $10 to increase peoples payouts would be unseemly to me. 3) I joined Medium to read before I even knew about writing and MPP payouts. It was a little disheartening to read comments from people that seem only to join for the payouts. Yet, to each their own.