Spotify will kill RSS podcatchers like Twitter killed RSS readers

I was a bit incredulous of the premise of the article, but I decided to pull Spotify open and see how this "roam-and-graze" experience treated me. Overall what I came away with was that there are a ton of podcasts about subjects I'm interested in, but not a lot of them look that interesting. Perhaps because it's Spotify, all my recommendations were music-adjacent. There were a couple episodes with interviewing musicians I like who don't do a ton of press, so I added those to my episode queue, but overall I was mostly amazed at how much content there is that didn't seem interesting to me at all.

Sort of reminds me of 15 years ago or so when it seemed like everyone had a blog (or two). Tons of content, but a whole lot of it not that interesting. In the end I ended up keeping the RSS reader and focusing on feeds that consistently delivered content I liked and I "graze" from there. Interestingly, this is essentially what I do with Podcasts.

Does anyone still use podcatchers? I've been using stitcher for podcasts for a super long time, and found podcatchers pretty annoying throughout time. The only use case I could conceive is storing a podcast to listen on my apple watch.

Though I am hardly a "pro" podcast listener. I guess my question is, are podcatchers already dead? And if not, who uses them?