I do agree with the wasted space part but why would you call it ugly? Also, I don't find the UI intuitive at all. Many actions like to go to the list of episode of a podcast you have to kind of start from the beginning. But ugly? No. In fact I find it pretty clean.

It's not an eye sore, but I say "ugly" because I don't like the organization, everything is misplaced in my opinion. Also thick lines and rounded corners galore.