The only other thing I’ve seen that seems viable/reasonable, for lack of better wording, which would definitely be a new implementation of some sort, is having multiple levels of ‘hidden’ so that something could be removed from Up Next, but stay in Progress (eg. Separating the hidden items WATCHED PROGRESS & UP NEXT - #3 by otakunet21). Does anyone have a really good concrete example of this? Personally I feel like based on ‘watched date’ sorting the items that you no longer care too much about in the short term just sink to the bottom of the list and therefore matter less anyway - Perhaps people are having issues if they’re using a different sort order which is keeping an item near the top of their Up Next?
My progress (if you filter out completed) definitely has some items in there that I won’t get to for a while (eg. Kitchen Nightmares, 8 out of cats countdown, etc.) so perhaps there should just be a better way to make items you’re ‘temporarily’ dropping (or say, putting ‘on hold’) sink to the end of the list. An example being a smart sort rather than having to manually mark something as “on hold” and keep managing it (or if its manual, perhaps this one should automatically unhide if you add an episode to history again, whereas IMO dropping should be permanently dropped unless manually undropping).