HT5295 How do I dump the Podcast app?

Question

Or more specifically, how do I return to managing and playing podcasts on my phone as I did before the Podcasts app was introduced (using iTunes and the Music app)?
I've avoided using this new system until it received at least a point release, hoping this would allow me to avoid the early kinks in a new system.  Last week I downloaded and installed the Podcast app, version 1.2.1.  However, I have found even this version to not work by any definition.  (I'll spare everyone my gripes, but the short version is that the Podcasts app simply prevents me from accessing or playing podcasts.)  How do I return my system so I can use iTunes and my iPhone as I did before this app?
Many thanks to all!!

Answer 1

Thank you Chris, but you misunderstand my problem; I have no interest in "fixing" how the Podcasts app operates.  This is because, not to put too fine a point on it, this app has too many issues to fix.  The Podcasts app completely fails on my phone in every definable respect: it won't access episodes already downloaded on iTunes, won't see my "paid for" subscriptions, says there's no wifi network when the phone and  other apps can see it, and deletes already downloaded content (despite settings to the contrary).  And that's just the beginning of my "list of broken".  These aren't inconvenient issues, learning to manage content differently or changing the settings... this app is ignoring iTunes content, ignoring its own settings and deleting what little content it chooses to download.  Troubleshooting the problems at this point would take far longer than simply returning to the way that definitely worked last Friday.  If I showed you my phone and how the app is operating, you would agree that this is not working at all, and not worth troubleshooting; this is take-off-and-nuke-the-entire-site-from-orbit broken.
As for the feeback link, I appreciate it, but it doesn't really help. I've been there a few times already, but if you look you'll notice there's no way to provide feeback for the actual problem: the Podcasts app.  There are eight other Apple IOS apps available for feedback, but Apple seems uninterseted in hearing feedback for Podcasts. ;-)
All I am trying to do is return my (audio only) podcasts to being managed in iTunes and played back in the "Podcasts" tab on the Music app, which is exactly as it worked until last week (when I installed the Podcasts app).  How can I return my system to this state, how everything worked?  I will need access to my podcasts next week when I have a long drive, and installing this app has only succeeded in preventing me from listening to my podcasts.