This is as far as I've gotten with this post and I'm giving it up. When I can read less than two paragraphs and mutter, "Oh FFS" over and over, it's time to walk away.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING NOW OR EVER AS CURATION JAIL.
Stop with the huge pictures. It took longer for that to load then it did for me to give up on "reading" this.
Plus unless you have a crystal ball you can't predict what Medium will or will not do. Hell, Medium doesn't know what it's doing from one day to the next.