This story is being published in collaboration with the Food Section, which covers food and drink in the American Southeast. The Food Section just relaunched as a publication independent from Substack. In retrospect, I probably should have had an inkling that Substack had flaws from the start. I launched the Food Section, a newsletter covering food and drink across the American South, in September 2021 with the backing of a Substack Local grant. The program, designed to support community journalism, offered a quarterly paycheck, editing services, Getty Images access, and a customized logo—far more than most legacy newsrooms could scrape...