I can't stand the new YOUR STORY PAGE. Claps are likes. One of the things that brought me to Medium was its distance from the Facebook-Style platforms that are so intellectually manipulative.

By removing people from actually reading your work and replacing it with people clicking a like button is an alluring dopamine mechanism that will lead the writers to pander.

So I would like to advocate reverting back to the better system or at least one with views featured more prominently, which is more akin to a ball washing than anything that matters to the world.