Apple Podcasts removing unplayed pods from feed

Ever since the second to last update downloaded on my iPhone, pods that I have not listened to yet are randomly disappearing from my feed because they are marked played. Even if I go in to a podcast ( that magically got marked as played even though I did not play it) and mark it unplayed so it shows back up in my feed, it will sometimes mark itself played again. I listen to so many podcasts so it’s super difficult to track and remember which ones I have listened to now because they keep disappearing from my feed.

The last update was offered soon after the penultimate one so I thought that might have a fix, but no such luck. I currently have 18.0.1.