I cannot understand Tony’s reasoning at all, and he will not be clear who the majority of Medium members are who are still earning a substantial income - only that everyone complaining is in a small echo chamber comprising 5% of Medium’s membership.
He also seems to pick and choose what questions he responds to and what he ignores. Medium does have a newsletter - why not tell “everyone” what is really happening via that, rather than us having to find out second and third hand by people sharing what he said in a reply to a comment.
It seems pointless to be part of any publications at the moment if we are punished because our posts are read mainly by other writers (who incidentally are also readers.)
Thank you for writing this and continuing to highlight our concerns.