When I update my podcasts daily, I scan for top items and download those manually, partially to create a prioritized playlist, but mainly to avoid using cell data.

This caused a problem when my playlist looks like this:

episode #1 (downloaded)
episode #2 (not downloaded, won't stream when no wifi)
episode #3 (downloaded)

Ideally, I want to press play, and if #2 is skipped, #3 starts playing. Instead, I have to manually manage this.

Likewise, since I'm manually managing, that means I usually stop a downloaded podcast with a bit left to go and picking the next one. That means the first one is never deleted in a cleanup because it's not marked read. Would be nice to have a setting "if there's less than N minutes left, mark it read when it stops being the currently played episode."