Currently, there is a lot of whining and complaining going on over Medium's recent clamping down on "scammers" (in the widest sense of the word). I don't want to sound like sucking up to "The Boss", but I can see quite some good in it. The number of one-word comments are definitely down. So is the number of obviously AI-generated comments. The fact that most of the whiners are those who flood my inbox with their daily drivel about writing and earning on Medium (several articles per day per author) shows that the adjustments to earnings have hit them hard. Cheers to that. It was long overdue because these wafflers siphon earnings away from authors who put a lot more actual work into their articles and who deliver value. At the same time, the earnings per read on boosted articles have not dropped. Actually, they increased a little (as far as I can tell). Then there is Medium's drive to invite academic authors to the platform, underscored by the 29-Jan webinar explicitly dedicated to that purpose. All that looks to me like Medium making good on its motto of "Creating a better internet". So, I'm definitely going to ride it out.

Substack is an interesting add-on, and, as you rightly pointed out in an earlier article, it is based on an entirely different business model. Both can play nice together for any author whose "product" delivers real value.

I like your angle of looking at corporate communications with the eyes of the professional who can "detect what companies inadvertently let slip when they’re trying to say nothing of importance".