Ironically, platforms like SubStack strike a fantastic balance. They're generally populated by journalists who can actually write or have huge notoriety (Glenn Greenwald and the like) who are writing substantive news and not JS tutorials. I think "freedom of speech" in time will be promulgated as metered and well thought out arguments that don't seek to slander or directly attack any singular person. This is how real adults talk, not how activists talk.
To be fair, Medium is shit. It's already started to become susceptible to similar "creator negatives" that have emerged on YouTube in the last 5 years (Casey Neistat personified this trend). People now just write clickbait / click-driven sharticles that sell ads. Granted, it's still better than what the NYT generally publishes.
Moreover - the boomer concept of physical newspaper delivery is equivalent to how millennials perceive well structured html / css emails that contain "news" or "journalism". It's a place I expect to see longer-ish form content and it's not in an app or platform that wants me to look at ads, boobs or something else they want to glue my eyeballs to.