Your points are great and were applicable until recently. But it is different now. I wrote around 2,000 articles but now algo does not show them to my followers or new readers as aI rticulated in a new story. It is same for many writers. I hope the distribution system gets fixed. Thank you for inspiration. HEre is the link to my story in case you are interested to understand the recent changes. https://medium.com/p/6a87a67e5484