I certainly have no desire to make more work. Quite the contrary, I thought that merging submissions would ultimately require less work for you and @ByteHamster since less updates would be required following the merge.
In case y’all decide to pursue merging, these are the duplicates that caught my eye and inspired this post:
Option of no auto deleting queue
How to set up for not removing from the list after listenning
An option to choose whether to automatically remove episodes from the queue when finished
Prevent episodes from being automatically deleted from the queue