Outline might help a bit [0] - it preserves all the text but pictures are really small [1] and all headers are lost.

[0]: https://outline.com/KZqa5L

Edit:

[1]: Images on Medium can be resized by changing the expected width param, as in https://miro.medium.com/max/{width}/{filename} URI.

- Outline-generated link (width = 60 px): https://miro.medium.com/max/60/1*rNmb72I6rBUckbJuI6hRFw.png?...

- Resized to 1024px width: https://miro.medium.com/max/1024/1*rNmb72I6rBUckbJuI6hRFw.pn...

both work for me

- incognito tab in chrome

- delete the medium or in this case itnext.io cookie

I did not get blocked this time so I cannot confirm it works properly on medium but this is a wonderful extension for unblocking many paywalls.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome