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100% with you, plus, with spotify premium you still get shitty ads on podcasts (that also do ad reads like hello fresh…) so there’s no advantage at all at listening to podcasts on spotify. I also find their media library management to be clunky at best so a dedicated podcast app is a far better option IMHO.