Dang I totally feel you on the whole self promotion thing and for me, it happened with Medium.
Used to love reading essays all the time but now all the titles tend towards click bait and every essay seems to begin or end with them pitching their newsletter/podcast/etc. and that ends up coloring my whole impression of what I just read.
Used to love reading essays all the time but now all the titles tend towards click bait and every essay seems to begin or end with them pitching their newsletter/podcast/etc. and that ends up coloring my whole impression of what I just read.