Thank you for opening this discussion, which should benefit many by if nothing else providing the clarity that when the stats defy common sense then there is something else going on behind the curtain. My advice for months and months has been if a writer is here to make money, they are in the wrong place. https://medium.com/illumination/is-medium-a-malignant-narcissist-1f3d55793bf6. But if a writer is here because they love to write and are happy to grow as a writer and perhaps as a person and spiritually https://medium.com/channspirations/two-weeks-ago-i-had-the-most-unpleasant-experience-8e69a54372a9 and for the satisfaction of their messages helping even one person in some way shape or form, https://medium.com/illumination/life-is-school-for-the-soul-and-in-each-reincarnation-we-are-spirits-learning-how-to-be-both-better-d66c726c1563, then Medium is a great space, despite the few bad misanthropic mites and gaslighting ghouls who engage in discussions not to elevate their fellow readers and writers but to denigrate the spiritual beliefs of so many here because misery loves company. I have engaged with many of your commenters not on this overall message of mine, but on specific points raised by them with respect to the subject matter of your article.