Dave Foley

Foley married Canadian writer Tabatha Southey on December 31, 1991.[14] They divorced in 1997.[14] The couple has two children.[14] In 2001, an interim child support agreement obligated Foley to pay Southey $10,700 a month, a figure based on his income when NewsRadio was in production. By 2011, Foley claimed that his earnings had declined to the point that the $10,700 sum constituted “literally 400 percent of [his] income” but he was unable to get the obligation reduced in court

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Foley

I can do it, but you can’t?

Check the global app settings. Under Network you can limit your total downloads (Automatic Downloads). For example, I have it limited to 10 downloaded at a time. See if that helps you out.

You can literally accomplish your use case with AntennaPod. You clearly have some issue with FOSS though.