I believe Medium did cut curation to survive. My son was making like 9 grand a month on Medium in 2020-2021. I still am thankful for Ev, very thankful. Medium had to change to stay afloat in my opinion, after doing crazy research. I am glad. I missed on the big buck curation, but we are still writing and for, I am thankful. Thank you for this post! It's such an important topic!