1. My earnings have remained relatively steady. Winter is always much slower and lower earning than summer. Don't know why.

2. After the great purge, I only lost 100ish followers. Maybe you were attracting bots for some reason (hmmm).

3. The more content creators who leave will only make the pot larger. Also, whining about the platform isn't really the quality content that Medium is looking for and articles like this won't generate a ton of income.