@jonathan859 Look, I get it. RSS is what made podcasts podcasts. It's what separated them from just being audio files on a website. And yeah, when something is locked behind Spotify or whatever platform, you lose the ability to archive it, listen in your own app, or truly own your experience. That matters. But I'm pretty sure you know very well that this isn't just unique to podcasts. We lost ownable music to streaming. We lost DRM-free audiobooks. We lost being able to buy a movie and actually keep it. Podcasts were one of the last open formats standing, and yeah, it sucks watching that slip away too. That said, when someone finds a show on Spotify, listens every week, and calls it a podcast — telling them "actually that's not a podcast" isn't preserving the medium. It's just gatekeeping terminology while the actual battle for openness gets ignored. So while I get where you're coming from, we live in a world where there's just no point fighting it.

@tunmi13 Your points are not incorrect, though I can still go to Audible, buy a book and rip/remove the DRM: Yes there is DRM; but it's still possible. Same for films, where I can still get a DVD if I really wanted to, of course that's not the case with series and stuff. Regarding music streaming, Streamrip and Tidal... Yes it's not owning, but I mean whoever wants to rather buy the music for ridiculous amounts with iTunes or whatever is free to I guess.
Also I'll probably end up hosting something like RSS Bridge and archiving the podcasts YouTube channel in that form, so there is definitely a point in fighting back and not just accepting to lose everything because some idiots who'd rather make money off it say so.