I hope Medium changes this and finds a way to truly recompense when the amount of external is just so high - do you notice we don't even know how much time they are spending? Could it be that they are spending much more time than even internal reads?
Anyhow - let me not start a rant. ;-)
congrats on these awesome reads and great journey Trisha -- Medium would not be the same for me without you! So glad you're here and thanks for sharing a little bit more about you!