Same here. The kinds of stories we write take time to research and get the facts right, and I can't do more than one of those a week.
I also saw my earnings take a dive in August 2020 - and the weird thing is, now I have a lot more followers (over 15K) and my earnings still haven't returned to what they were before the "crash." I recently started doing mid-week "updates" that take less time to put together, to see if that would help. It's only two weeks into this, but it doesn't seem to be bringing in any more views/reads. I just don't know what this platform wants.