It's nice when editors engage with writers about what they'd like to change, rather than just do it, introducing actual errors, because Grammarly suggests them.

I'm not discrediting editors - just ranting about Grammarly. If some editors don't want work that's non-compliant with all Grammarly's suggestions, I can publish elsewhere.

I've come across this in a range of publications - not just Illumination. The Shortform used to add full stops to all my titles. To my mind, that's wrong. Titles should not generally have full stops. Grammarly simply doesn't have the brains or visuals to recognise that it's suggesting a full stop on a title - because it's an app, not a human. Humans are supposed to use it with a degree of judgement.

The Writing Cooperative used to turn all my work to US English. They've since relaxed about UK English. But it's a Medium thing - not just one publication.

And of course it's up to the editor if they want everything to comply with Grammarly 100%. It doesn't mean I have to like it though, or keep writing for them. It doesn't mean I can't have a moan about the errors Grammarly introduces to my work.

And I just spotted you're a Muddy Um editor. Ah yes - I know they work with writers to improve copy. That's a better approach.