Remove available but not downloaded podcasts from PA
First.. I'm really glad that you managed to get Google to put your app back in the store. I realize that you probably needed to sacrifice a black iPhone10S but I'm happy it worked.
Ok. My idea (I've looked in the settings pretty throughly but couldn't find what I was looking for) ... I subscribe to 2 0r 3 podcasts that I only listen to when I see an episode of particular interest. When that happens, I manually download the single episode of interest and it automagically gets added to one of my custom playlists.
What I would really like is for the UN-downloaded/UNplayed episodes to be marked played after they've reached a certain age.
As it is, I have to periodically go to each of those podcasts and manually set everything to read in order to clear things up.