I had an idea for an article, didn’t really care about where to put it and I decided to give Medium a shot. I didn’t know it would be that bad. There’s no way

I had an idea for an article, didn’t really care about where to put it and I decided to give Medium a shot. I didn’t know it would be that bad. There’s no way to turn off auto-formatting in Medium editor. No way at all - support confirmed it. Dashes, quote marks and ellipses in your article will be placed only in a way Medium wants them to be. So, for example, if you decide to write in a language other than English and want to surround your dashes with spaces — like this — according to traditions of this language, there’s no way to do it in Medium editor. Even if you try to do something smart with clipboard, your efforts will be overwritten on save. This is a clear example of a software that tries to be smarter than its user and fails.