For instance, when evaluating an episode past the limit for deletion:

- What if it's an old episode that I went back and added?
- What if I've partly listened to it?
- What if I partly listened, but never finished it? (How long ago? How much is left?)
- What if I'm currently listening to it?
- What if I'm listening to it, but on a device that hasn't been used in a while?
- What if it's downloaded to the Watch? (How recently has that watch been used for standalone playback?)

So many questions.

And if you try to be smart about it, you end up with conditions in which a podcast might retain more episodes than the set limit, and then the feature looks broken and you get confused customers and negative feedback.

"I set it to X episodes, and there's X+1! It doesn't work!”