It’s the absolute gold standard. Marco ASrment does a fantastic job. It’s also fairly great as a web app, imho: https://overcast.fm
My use case is a few regular podcasts, and many (~100) podcasts where I listen to only one episode. I like to keep the infrequently accessed podcasts around so I can remember what I listened to, and in case there's another episode I want.
Also it doesn't sync with iCloud, but maybe that's been added?