The new podcasts app is absolutely terrible. My girlfriend is a heavy listener and the list of podcasts she has available takes between 30-45 seconds if it load

The new podcasts app is absolutely terrible. My girlfriend is a heavy listener and the list of podcasts she has available takes between 30-45 seconds if it loads at all. Releasing the new version of this app was absolutely a regression, and I'm shocked that it actually got past any form of QA at all. My only guess here is that a team felt the need to ship a new shiny product, even if it wasn't close to feature parity with the old one and is pretty unusable for a normal workflow without becoming quickly frustrated. I assume business metrics, promotions, and appeal to novelty got in the way of functionality and user experience. My girlfriend mentioned that she wanted to turn off automatic updates because she would have never updated this app to the new version, which is quite frustrating as somebody with some basic netsec knowledge. Apple, what happened?