Ridiculous false conclusion based on feelpinion grousing.

The author has been around and wriring dilligently, nearly every day, for over a year.

But he only has 59 followers. Which means:

1) he's not that good of a writer/his writing is not engaging readers in a way that leads the algorithm to populate his articles into people's feeds at a top rank. How many articles do you think readers generally read in a day? How long do you think they'll scroll before giving up for the day? If you don't make the top of the list, you don't get read. It IS a competitive algorithm.
2) The author is not investing enough time on the 'marketing' side of writing. His titles are boring and his tag selection could be better. These things matter. You can't be lazy about it. Your opening paragraphs shouldn't put readers to sleep. They should draw readers in. The goal is to get them to engage in as many ways as possible. Reading the whole article, clapping, commenting, clicking the links and coming back, etc.
3) The author has not done any work on building a following to get his work seen. In fact, you and I have just done more to boost him to readership just now than he's done for himself in over a year. The whole reason this tripe ended up in my feed is because you commented on it and you and I have well established comment exchanges. Now that I've commented, this article will show up in the feeds of others I regularly engage with. Again, that's how the algorithm works. I've got over 1K followers mostly from reading and commenting. I don't write regularly on Medium as I don't like the regurgitating churn of content creation. The author would have more of a following and umtimately get more people reading his work if he engaged with other writers. It is what it is.
4) The writing is stale. Seems a dry as AI content, although the sexist remarks indicate it was written, at least in part by a human. Even informative essays need to be somewhat entertaining if you want the widest possible readership.
5) The author has recently switched to relationship type articles. He's got no built up cred in readers who focus on these topics. It takes a hot minute to establish yourself and it takes some work. You can't just jump from one genre to another or one topic type to another and think you'll automatically get the same engagement. You'll lose readers who read your political pieces and you'll have to earn readers on relationship pieces. Just like everybody else.