Medium doing their best tweaks to ensure people don't earn enough. Maybe one or two writers would get lucky otherwise even with 1000s of reads you will earn very less.

Is this happening with the help of the two newly joined engineers? have they even joined. Why would they tell us.

By the way is it the fact that your articles were articles about Medium that the EPR got so low?

I read something related to it in 1Spots article where he shares a screenshot by Tony about Meta articles.