This comes up again and again, but a personal solution until things move is to disable Javascript on Medium. Then, you are presented with a fully working page, without any distraction. Just disable JS on Medium. It "gracefully improves".
1. Go to medium.com or a medium.com article
2. Click the icon to the left of the url in the url bar, it will probably be a lock or an info icon.
3. Select site settings.
4. Under permissions, change Javascript to Block.
Works a treat! Thanks!
Do people realise that interested readers aren't getting to their content because they chose Medium?