When you're looking at a page of 30 links, the signaling value of a domain is useful. Medium is a low-barrier place to publish, and has discovery built in, so it ends up attracting a lot of bad writing and promotional material. That, combined with the degraded reading experience, is why I am happy to judge a book by its cover in this case.
>>paulgb+(OP)
I've found the majority of content on medium.com to be so useless that I now run a plugin in my browser to block medium.com from my DDG results.