I'm twenty days late in finding this article and it's 3:30 am, thanks to the dogs. But I believe good essays are timeless, and this one meets my criteria. As a professional editor for a corporation, with five writers feeding me content, change is a constant. All I ask is they notify me of updated content to a section. But in the Medium world, if an essay has compelling changes or updates, it should be revised, retitled and rereleased with acknowledgement to the original. That way the plagiarism bots will leave you alone. But I agree with you, if the change is a word or punctuation and doesn't change the intent of the story, make the modification and move on.