As a card carrying Substack hater, I’m not suprised.
> "How could Substack improve this situation for technical writers?"
They don’t care about (technical) writers. All they care about is building a TikTok clone to “drive discoverability” and make the attention-metrics go up. Chris Best is memeing about it on his own platform. Very gross.
Reminds me of Slashdot and breaking the page by widening it with certain characters