You mean switching from RTK to WK (Just did 1 week of RTK anyway until kanji #172)? Hm… might be. I just need to get used to WK then.
90% of the radical names work for me. There are a few that I just look at and do NOT see whatever they’re saying it is, and then I just remember the radical because of how angry it made me.
I skip the mnemonics often as they’re pretty long and convoluted once you get up there. But I make my own quick mnemonics from the radicals as soon as I see it.