Medium staff can't be mustache-twirling supercapitalists all the time. Honestly, the changes can be annoying, but they're trying to make a sustainable, paywalled platform, which is hard? How many successful platforms can you name on the internet? Everything else is polluted with adds.
Oops, I dropped the keys to my new 2025 Dirge RAM 1500 pickup with premium human leather seating, a world-class sound system to drown out my victims, and serious horsepower to help evade any law enforcement types.
You know, that kind of thing.