Why Do People Prefer My Old Blog's Layout To Substack's?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-do-people-prefer-my-old-blogs

This keeps coming up. When I was first considering moving to Substack, I asked my readers what they thought. They thought various things, but one of them was they hated the layout. At some point I turned this into a formal survey, and: