Medium is still an enormous opportunity. Anyone who has been a journalist or writer for any length of time can tell you nothing like this platform ever existed before. It was difficult for writers to get people to read their stories let alone earn money on them. On the business side of things, Medium is relatively still in its infancy as far as social medium platforms go. It's going to evolve because of that and because the internet demands fluid evolution of technology, practices, and platforms. Writers need to be encouraged that there is still a lot of opportunity here and it's still by far one of the nicest outlets to write for. I've written on many national outlets as a journalist and believe me the comments can be far worse. Medium tends to be nicer because it's a community.