Apple doesn't like podcasts?

The old (ios6) podcast app was terrible.  That's an objective fact; look at the ratings.  I used it once, deleted it.  Podcasts belong in the music app, like they always were.  Now, ios 7 not only doesn't include any app that allows podcast listening, it also didn't update the terrible podcasts app for ios 7.  They went crazy redesigning the **** compass, but the podcast app got left behind.  So my options are go back to ios 6, or download the terrible app and suffer with the limitations it presents, or pay for a third party podcast app and hope for the best.
So, here's my question:
Seriously?
Thanks,
Rob

Its not just bluetooth and new cars that are suffering. I use the flicktunes gesture control app and listen to podcsts while driving. Now I can't. So fed up with this. All I can think of doing is import the downloaded files into a regular playlist and change genre from genre to anything else and see if that works but its clumsy at best.
I don't understand this. Half what is in my music app is spoken word so why not let me include podcasts which, when it comes down to it they're all just audio files.
Please apple, let me play podcasts in the music app!

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