There are plenty of dedicated podcast apps that offer a better experience with no or very little algorithmic recommendation system. I've used PocketCasts for y

There are plenty of dedicated podcast apps that offer a better experience with no or very little algorithmic recommendation system. I've used PocketCasts for years and it's been perfect and doing exactly what it needs to do and no more. The main page is just a grid of podcasts I'm subscribed to, and I can go into a list of all unplayed episodes of all my podcasts sorted chronologically. There is a "discover" tab that has featured/trending podcasts, but I never touch that other than to use the search (which doubles as an entry field where you can paste an RSS link to subscribe that way)