The Android app update is even worse Fred, I wrote an article about the unusability of that a few days ago, and someone using the iphone version, which is apparently also recently updated, says it is equally bad.
On the 5 dollars per month, I agree Medium doesn’t need to charge it any longer, it could just invest in a money-tree, or money-fuel tree, to become wholly clean energy powered, whilst paying for all things including generous rewards for all writers, and even all appreciators, even buying back all shares if it wished to, to become non profit, with the implementation of a real creator economy on the Medium platform.
But pigs might fly.