+1 for AntennaPod, has tons of options but also gets out of your way if all you want to do is find and listen to podcasts.

I can’t see Google ever adding in all the options people want in a podcast app into YouTube Music, it’s just never going to happen.

I would expect they’ll probably use it to try and switch you over to the video version (if it exists) since it’s going to have the more expensive ads (I assume the video ads are more lucrative anyways), which isn’t overall a bad thing, but also not really a good one either.