[neurobashing]

you are correct, that's another facet of the debate (I tried to hit the high points). The argument against that is usually "as long as I'm there why don't I just write the damn article".

[delinka]

I mean, you don't write the article from scratch on each platform. The author should, ideally, be writing it locally and then placing it in all the places it's needed.

[aytekin]

They should publish on their blog first and then use the import feature of Medium to republish it with a canonical to the original.