Display Mode: Episodes
Story / Use Case: User has a category of podcasts. User changes that category's view mode to (proposed) "Episodes", sorts by publication date, and 'closes the eye' to not show podcasts user has already listened to. Displayed is a combined list of every unlistened episode of every podcast in that category that the user has subscribed to. User can now listen to podcast episodes for a given set of podcasts, in the given order, and this display mode is maintained for this category, with new episodes of any subscribed podcasts within that category appearing at the top of the list.
Currently (v3.52.6), users can sort a list of podcasts by last publication date, but
1) can't easily get a combined, maintained list of episodes
2) the last publication date of any given podcast isn't changed when the user opens/closes the eye, so sorting by publication date isn't useful to even tell the user which podcast has the most recent unlistened episode.