The people writing about cooking etc will probably leave because Medium gutted them like a fish, too.
They could have chosen to demonetize all Medium meta crap and everyone would have cheered. But they instead chose to drastically drop the earnings of good writers producing quality work.
You’ll have to move to Substack to read quality writing soon. That’s where most of us went. I’m planning to post something on Medium a couple of times a month just to serve my readers here. But I have mostly switched to Substack because I get paid there.