I can feel your frustration. I have the writing daily thing down - having written on my own blog daily for five years - no joke. But, I find it hard to gain traction on Medium. I'm going to stick with it fote r a bit but am starting to think it's not the right place for me either. I don't want to write about writing. Also, connecting with others is important but it cannot be the only thing that drives the response. I'm noticing this with other writing groups I belong to as well - you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. I have really mixed feelings about that! Thanks for putting yourself out there. There does seem to be a lot of advice repeated over and over and over and NO, it does NOT apply to everyone. I hope you keep writing.