I’ll add here that per feed playback speed settings are also not being honored. Instead, only the global default playback speed is used.
Additionally, playback control from the widget seems unresponsive most of the time.
Finally, I’ve noticed that on playback pause and resume (as a result of a notification sound from Android, etc.) has a much more noticeable “rewind” where maybe half of a second of audio is replayed on resume.