I agree with everything you said about Medium. When I first started trying to blog or write articles, many moons ago, Textbroker was recommended to me. But then they scared me away from it by saying the competition was fierce! Do you know how frightening that sounds to a newbie?? To this day I have never tried Textbroker. I have seen PopSugar. But I did not know I could earn from that site. This was a great article to read. It met my expectations. Meaning, I learned something! LOL.