If a writer cares so little about their audience that they put their article on Medium, it’s not worth reading.
The purpose of Medium is to sell advertising to generate as large a return for investors as possible. As a blogging or “journalism” platform it’s mostly a scam for those who don’t know better.
Oh yeah. This does it for me too. A 20-something volume series space-opera or tactical space-war is perfect for GSD. Works great for insomnia too.
Fortunately we’re in a sci-fi golden-age so there’s lots of great stuff to keep a brain happily occupied while the body mindlessly toils. Urban fantasy is another great genre for this. There’s even urban-fantasy space-opera if that’s your thing, lol.