How long are the articles you are reading? I’m reading blog articles rather than long form content. My queue is in the hundreds and the articles very in length from two minutes to 20 minutes. I found it really annoying to need to push buttons while driving to skip or auto play the next article.

Yeah, mostly super long form stuff. If it's only 2 minutes it's faster for me to just read it than to open it in their reader

Fwiw, I would use their app way more if it were better. Right now I use it for 1-2 long form articles at a time, I am sometimes willing to push buttons in order to stay focused but will bail out to eg my podcasts app if that becomes untenable

For me, it's less about the individual pieces length and more about the length of my total queue. An example might be reading the top 10 HN articles I saved for later while doing laundry or something like that. The current UI makes no accommodation for this use case, while other apps, like Pocket, do.