Alas, your current monetizing mode leaves not much more chances to success than for Star Citizen to cope with all chronic alpha stage trials and tribulatuons suddenly, with the proviso that they were unable to cover their bases through the most of the current decade.
I, for one, decided to ignore Partnership Program due to its tight clap number criterion, just looking at my content here as yet another portfolio and/or advertising repo. All my articles and comments are being published for free both in English and Russian. I never raised the monetizing firewall, for it’d bring me more harm than money.
As a side note: Android Medium app seems to slow down even the paltry thing of progress that I came up to expect from it.