WatchOS 10 podcasts lost "Play on iPhone" functionality

With upgrading to WatchOS 10, I found that the new Podcasts app on my watch is not able to control podcasts playback on iPhone, so from the most used app it downgraded to rarely used, but for some reason the app still activates when I start playing a podcast on iPhone without any way to control the playback. Another problem is that it's not possible to add "Now playing" to the watch screen quick button, nor it appears in the current task list, so I have to open All Apps list on watch and find "Now playing". Is there a way to make it less cumbersome?