I know I stopped listening to several podcasts when they became Spotify exclusives.

I hate that so many “podcasts” like JRE are locked behind platforms like YouTube or Spotify. IMO if you can’t access them via rss with a podcast app they shouldn’t be allowed to call themselves podcasts.

Podcasts are freedom tech and being locked on a platform is antithetical to podcasting. Big money may be leaving podcasts but podcasting will continue to live on - especially now with Podcasting 2.0 and V4V.