Then we should improve that instead of inventing a second way to manage paused episodes.
If I understood you correctly, you want to have a list of started episodes on the same screen as the list of all episodes. I think it might be possible to do something like this on the “home” screen. We could maybe add a setting that changes how many episodes it shows in each section. Then you can move the queue section to the top of the “home” screen, add an “episodes” section and disable all others. Conceptually, this can then be used exactly the same way as your pausedOnTop setting (but with the benefit that you don’t have to mark partially played episodes as fully played when you are not interested in them).