Hi there,
I didn’t know about that service, thanks! Even though I would say that with Anchor the level of effort is the same: you can just record from your browser or phone or tablet, you can easily skip editing and the final product is a podcast in the proper sens on the term that gets automatically published everywhere.
I don’t know what the matter is with audio but there is new fashion. Twitter with the audio messages, Clubhouse, also Facebook is doing something about those lines as well.
As for the podcast recommendations, there are some in this thread.