These changes are in the direction of making Medium a place for non-tech, "quantity over quality" writers. The changes don't and won't work well for the tech writers esp the ones that are writing about niche areas of advanced data science, quantum computing, tech tutorials; the read ratios and the engagement work differently for the tech reader, and the same has been vocalised by many folks here in the comments. My earnings have tanked to one-tenth. This needs to be checked, otherwise, there will be a lot of attrition of writers from Medium.