I applaud the implications of your conclusion.

I'd add that, not every contributor to Medium is intent or even concerned about financial recompense. Certainly, I am not, despite living on a 'below the poverty line' pension.

I write, when I do, because I must. It is a part of who I am. It is not necessarily 'good'. I try to ensure that it is at least coherent, syntactically correct and either entertaining or informative or both.

Yes, I have always had a desire to be a great writer and how that must be. At the same time, I have long known that I won't ever be such but, more importantly, that writing, whether highly admired, read by millions or just a few, financially freeing or negligible, will not necessarily improve one's life or sense of being.

If writing does anything that is particularly worthwhile, as with all art forms, what it does it to change the views, feelings and lives of others. The true writer, (artist), connects personal experience with universalities and does so because they must and largely to share with others what they feel.

I don't say that there is anything wrong with writing for financial reward. I do say that such will rarely produce the best writing, let alone that which is truly great, regardless of whether it attracts millions or just a handful of appreciators.

Yes, let's connect, by all means. However, let's connect not as in 'networking', which is not only intended but even presented as a means to further one's own career or status but, instead, let's connect with honesty, feeling, compassion, caring, advice, consideration and a desire to share.

Oughtn't that to be for what communication is really useful? Isn't that what good writing inevitably offers?

Take care. Stay safe. ☮️