Organizing and playing podcasts should not be that difficult: They have tags to organize them like any mp3s. If you're subscribing to one, then it should check periodically if there are updates. Maybe the syncing between devices could be an issue, but not excessively. Somehow Apple fails at this:

1. I had a bunch of podcasts that were simple mp3s and I didn't get from iTunes. That programs allows you to take any mp3, select the "podcast" category, and then you're good to go. About three versions ago, that stopped working and I don't know why. On my computer it's fine, but on any Apple device they don't show up. If you use Spotlight it registers, so I know it's somewhere on the device, but if you try to select it it doesn't work. One of them did appear and can play, but the tags are completely wrong and say it's episode four instead of two. I wouldn't be so peeved about this if it was working completely fucking fine last year.

2. Podcasts are doubling or tripling. I can't explain why, and even if I try to delete them they just won't disappear. Something that was fine yesterday suddenly isn't today.

3. Everything is organized newest or oldest, nothing alphabetical or whatever. Considering iTunes fucks up the dates half the time, I have episodes all over the place. If I could just put shit alphabetically, things like "Episode 01" and "Episode 02" would be in good order instead of one being in the top third of the list and the second all the way near the bottom.

4. You can save a podcast onto your computer or just stream it. After I've saved something, I've found occasionally they're not longer saved and will be deleted.

I didn't start listening to podcasts until about 2010 or 2011, but this shit worked fine back then! How the hell did they screw this up?