So I relaunched my blog again. This time I’m hosting it myself. Never again with third-party platforms.
My bad experiences with Medium and @write_as led me here, to my own Jekyll solution.
My very first article published with this system talks about the journey and why this decision matters.
(Also, I have finally resolved to calling it a blog.)
https://markwrites.io/i-should-have-self-hosted-to-begin-with/