It’s not only when resuming or starting playback from the home screen, it happens when starting or resuming content from anywhere, incl. various libraries, as reported here, clarified here and confirmed here. The video recording in particular should show that it doesn’t matter where the episode is played from, the app gets confused about available data streams.
Okay! What e-mail address should I use?
And understood about the logs – might take a while to hit this scenario then because I usually play downloaded content when outside the house, and at that time, I won’t be able to collect server logs immediately. But I’ll try!