[arinlen]

To me, Medium is a platform for those who desperately want to monetize text even (and mainly) if they have nothing to write about.

[hateful]

Very much this for me. It was so bad a couple of years back that I seriously considered writing a browser extension to hide and/or highlight medium posts so I would stop accidentally clicking on them.

The site has been better more recently, but the stigma is still there, at least for me.