Hello again, Katherine! In the end my article was published in All About M, which has the same editor who rightly thought it would be better placed there:

https://medium.com/all-about-m/what-would-really-boost-medium-and-why-they-might-not-care-38624351a9b6

I'm just finishing a follow-up which I will be submitting shortly.

I hope you get a chance to read them, and find them of interest. And comment on them, of course!