I write this as an editor of a publication and a writer who seeks to get published in Medium publications: What writers often fail to understand is that there are usually only 1 -3 editors per publication, and publications get submissions all day, every day. There is always a queue of new submissions for editors to review. Most editors have lives of their own outside of Medium, lives where we work for a living -- real, paying jobs; where we take care of our families; spend free time at hobbies; spend time in our communities, etc. Also, many publication editors are not professional editors at all. They are not equipped to hand out writing advice. They created their publications as a hobby, to build community, or some other reason that we can only guess.

Writers often mistakenly think their drafts are the most important, most pressing things on an editor's agenda. That's naive and unrealistic. Editors do not get paid for our work, and Medium don't acknowledge are work at all. Every editor is a volunteer here.