I feel like it changed a year to a year and a half ago some people noticed but like your quote said..slowly at first...... especially with the changes they were making, and Medium already had a lot of cliques and those of us not in them, saw what was happening, and we slowly ventured elsewhere. Without an announcment, because we saw, and left in silence like we came. Popping up now and again to engage with those we enjoy. I can honestly say I don´t read a lot of people here anymore, because I don´t like the far left, or the far right, and when a platform turns too far in either direction there are issues. I despise the entire system as a whole, I will not discriminate, it is all a shit show right now.