True but there are also readers who are interested in small shots of information, be it a how to list, a piece of advice on a particular issue that the writer has (even limited) experience with and so on. My take on this is that Medium offers a wide array of styles for a wide range of preferences. Don’t you think it Medium should be a platform for everyone to contribute and test their skills? And if they make it as content creators with a consistent income generated by their writing that can only mean that their doing something right. Medium is not an academic peer reviewed set of publications and so long we don’t understand Ev’s vision about it, we might be disappointed because it does not play within our quality standards.

In the end, there is place for everyone. Those that are really unqualified will eventually not move past a handful of views. And for those that are smart and know what they should publish, based on their personal strategy (which could be only income driven), hat off.

I’ll conclude by giving you my example. I am a non-native English speaker. I have a PhD in Computer science and I work for an IT company. I can write about a topic in an elevated manner. I know what academic peer review means. But I also know I want to free my writing from the academic rigor. I had enough of it during my studies. So yes, I write 180° differently here than I would do it IRL — and it’s lucrative. At the end of the day I am provided to a request, and what I am writing seems to be what a sizeable amount of readers resonate with. So let’s just say that I found my niche — i.e. there’s space for everyone to have a voice.