I am one of the later subscribers, but I was subscribing for 16 EUR/y, when they've bumped the subscription to eye-watering 45 EUR. So far they have respected the deal and I am still paying the initial amount.

I am sympathetic with author, but unfortunately it is also one, if not the best podcast app technically. It has this 0-bullshit UI which does what you expect without enforcing some maddening organization patterns (Castro) of fancy UI with hilarious amount of bugs (looking at you, Overcast).

It has the "mark as played" button, also in car play.

It is the only one I've found capable to pull the episode on Apple Watch over network, instead of relying on pre-caching from phone app.

I would be very sad if PocketCasts goes out of business.

P.S.: I checked and it seems that Overcast also has cellular streaming on AW - I need to test it again.