I've complained about it before and I will continue to complain about it. Why is removing podcasts that I've listened to a "feature"? Why would I want to lose track of where I'm at? I have had this happen to me too many times and have switched my main podcast app from this to something else. Now the feature to not remove podcast that I've listened to is gone completely, it should be on by default. I'm surprised nobody on the team thought for 2 seconds that people might not like this feature.