I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think a big part of why I don't like Medium either is because it's popular. Yes, it's going to sound hipster-ish to say

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think a big part of why I don't like Medium either is because it's popular. Yes, it's going to sound hipster-ish to say the posts started out interesting, but now whenever I see a link to a post on Medium I expect it to be someone complaining about someone or something, and most of the time that's what it is.