The first thing I do when I open the Spotify app on my iPhone is do a hard close of said app because God forbid I want an up-to-date list of recently updated po

The first thing I do when I open the Spotify app on my iPhone is do a hard close of said app because God forbid I want an up-to-date list of recently updated podcasts. I understand trying to keep things in cache but for things that require frequent updates that should be the default yet there isn't even a swipe down to refresh function. The podcast ads also break the player like 30% of the time, resulting in another hard close. In CarPlay occasionally there is an issue where clicking on one podcast episode in new episodes section results in playing the item below it, resulting in another hard close. The desktop app doesn't have many issues but they did make a change to playlists a couple of months ago where some useless sidebar comes out from the right when you play a song. I ended up abandoning them for podcasts all together about a month ago. Too many people working there making changes to things that aren't broken for the sake of making changes. Not a single thing they have done in the last ~4 years has been positive.