Agreed, I use a brush to get whatever doesn’t get off by soaking and spraying, then a soapy dish towel for the cleaning. Dish towel gets washed by hand after doing dishes and hang dries, or in the washer with other towels if I remember to grab it.

In our house sponges are only used for cleaning things we don’t eat off of, and those scrub daddy sponges are the worst I’ve ever used at sponging with the worst scrubber for scrubbing.