I was in a similar situation a few months ago, and had tried just powering through with reviews… that didn’t work and I ended up with a ton of things that fell back to Apprentice and had too many things showing up randomly to be able to learn effectively. What saved me was the classic reorder ultimate, rather than the “prioritize overdue reviews” script above. Haven’t used the later, but it’s description doesn’t sound like it would have been as helpful.
It took some time to recover, but I’m happily back to regular reviewing now. Another thing I did was report my progress back to recovery. People were pretty nice at cheering me on. my thread was: Reset apprentice items - #17 by spamneko