I was wondering when Mediumites would start writing about this lamebrained change, Dan. I used to use my phone a lot for Medium but the app got squirrelly (Android) early last year and I have trouble even reading on it. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it made no difference. If I click on an article in an email on my phone, I can't even get to the app to see the article. It just does a weird flash and I am back at the email.
Hence, these new, unwelcome changes will not affect me much. But, I feel the pain for those of you who do so much Medium work on phones. I know some rely on their phone apps for nearly everything they do on this site.