Well, I hope you figure out what is going on with your distribution. I have found that, contrary to what others have told me, that placing the image immediately after the subhead actually seems to hurt my distribution. If I place a couple of sentences in between the subhead and the image, I get distributed.
You wrote that you haven't been distributed since MWC. What is that?
I have never seen anything written by you that would cause you to be in a "curation" jail but who knows?
You're one of my favorite writers, and I mean top three or so, not, like top 20. I really hope you find a solution.