Thanks for sharing your frustrations. If my perspective is of any use to you, looking at the list of articles you write, I, for one, could not really figure out what segment of readers you are writing for. It's OK to be writing about more than just one thing, but there has to be at least one main thing you keep writing about. Mine are tech and software development with a few tangental articles in there about writing and music. Writing about Medium tricks and hacks is not going to get you far, nor will articles on how to make more money. There's way too many of them already and they have a reputation to be spammy clickbait stuff. Just my 2c'...