David from Hackernoon here. I am thankful Medium (as it used to be) existed. I wish they didn't give up on empowering people to build their own sites. But their new business model is interesting and I wish them the best, it just has nothing to do with empowering people to build their own sites.
The ability to spin up your own "digital media company" as Hackernoon has done, with close to no setup costs.