In reading through the updated Help Center article, you have a statement that is an assumption, a goal, or a dream but it is not fact.

"On the "Following" tab of your followers’ homepages on desktop and mobile apps, where people can see all of the stories from Medium authors and publications they follow listed in reverse chronological order."

The above is absolutely not working with any efficiency or effectiveness at all. This is not my experience alone and I have had ongoing dialogue with coach Tony about this.

Do you know what did work exceptionally well and effectively? The entity bar.

The curation/distribution notice may not have correlated to a spike in reads but it was a tangible metric to writers as feedback of quality, or reasonably passable work.

No both are gone.

While your team is working to better Medium, you are destroying the very communities between readers and writers that makes Medium stand out from all the others.

This is a common and consistent sentiment.