Lovely advice —and encouraging! You’re 100% right, claps are a feel-good metric and yet—even claps don’t mean your article was written well.
Some friends clap for it to offer support, so once we remove the metrics and just write knowing that’s how we will get better—and by the way, I’m writing that to help fix my own mentality—we can work on our hurt feelings.
Enjoyed your article and congrats on the high views of that article! Quite impressive—you nailed the title and it has great SEO!