Why don’t you make a change that makes money for you and us?

Create some new subdomains: tech.medium.com, politics.medium.com etc.

Copy the stuff you want to curate there AND RUN ADS ON THE POSTS. No paywall, just ads. Advertise the ad-free, paywalled site there, of course.

Maybe let us give you our Adsense number and some percentage of ads pay us directly - save yiou from Stripe on those.

Maybe let us include our own affiliate links there and keep them off the paywall site.

Money for you, money for us, ad-free site for members. Win-win all around.