Thank you for an interesting analysis of your underperforming stories. I liked your thought process. However, your findings do not necessarily reflect the reality based on my qualitative and quantitate review of stories by assessing the performance multiple publications and many writers. Your final thoughts are excellent. Apart from the content quality perspective you described beautifully, SEO and internal algorithm behaviour also play a critical role in the performance of content. Those factors are usually beyond the control of writers. I hope you get better results in 2023.