Thank you for writing. It helps me understand how I will be understood. On this topic, I think writer concern is not warranted. No change is live yet. Most of the concern seems to be about definitions of credibility that aren’t what we would use and/or don’t recognize that certain big topics here require experience before you can talk about them accurately, ie JavaScript programming. In every single original statement on this topic I went out of my way to give a very broad definition of expertise that included personal experience and deep research. I’m not saying anything at all about what can be published on Medium. Write what you love. What we are balancing is that the current system is inadequate in that it overweights engagement signals at the expense of substance. That shows up as a clear negative with subscribers.