I quit Medium Partner Program in protest

It was never about the money, and when I see a unicorn being turned into a fat milking cow, my heart bleeds.

1. The new Medium experience sucks. Under the pretence of surfacing authors, they turned it into another scroll app. I used to always have something to read, now I need to scroll endlessly to find something that remotely addresses my hunger for new perspectives. Their suggestion algorithm misses the point like every other suggestion algorithm ever designed. Provoke me, don’t drown me in what I already know.
2. As an early adopter I feel cheated by all the changes that took place without anyone asking me what I think.
3. UI/UX choices Medium has made are counterintuitive and it makes me wish they read the same articles I read on here, before they pushed the changes noone liked down our throats.
4. I am tired of the likes of Bit hijacking entire topics. You can’t read about front end development without feeling that Bit is a panacea to all of your problems, and you are an outlier disliking another ecosystem being built in parallel to npm. Hidden advertising is worse than transparently marked advertising.
5. Partner program disbursements are not transparent and recent changes make me wonder why I bother. I am not here to recruit or indoctrinate, I am here to share my knowledge with fellow members and engage with useful comments and feedback. Extra income is a plus, but beyond the point. I don’t need the Medium income to survive, it feels good to feel compensated, but it’s not the goal. I believe that most members are here for the same reason and turning Medium into a money-making machine is on par with uselessness of Instagram, pretty on the surface but shallow on the inside.
6. I am tired of people boasting about their Medium income, as if they were discussing the size of their penis. An algorithm that is biased towards itself is an egomaniac that will be its own demise.
7. A tech company that doesn’t let you use native web to post and comment and forces you into using an app is a pariah. My browser blocks 10 trackers on their website (which is more than some e-commerce websites full of ads), I don’t want to know how much they track using the app without my knowledge. Without native web-experience all claims of accessibility and universality are just bull