Time to use a different app. Podcast Republic has served me well over the years. Keep in mind I use a proxy adblocker so I don’t know if it has a ton of ads otherwise.

I’m not the person you wrote to but I recommend reading the books and not watching the show at all.

It all comes down to the gimmick not being worth an additional thousand euros to the price of my phone.

I don’t think durability would be a problem for me as I already baby my glass back device and I haven’t been using screen protectors for years with no problem. The downgrade in cameras isn’t that big of a deal for me as most pictures I take are macro, and as it turns out phones nowadays are horrendous dogshit at it anyway.

I think I’d enjoy the gimmick, I used to own a flip phone as a teenager, it’s just not worth a thousand euros extra. I’d probably add another 150 or 200 euros to my pixel to buy a folding phone.