Excellent advice man, I’ve only recently realised the importance of maintaining consistency in regards to lessons as you’ve said about 2 levels ago (I believe that I’ve caught on early enough as to not be too harshly punished for it in the future). There would be times I’d do lots of lessons in one sitting, and then be unable to retain that information which would create a lot of leeches. Then other times I’d just do lessons at weird intervals with no concern for the SRS, which led to me forgetting more things, and again creating more leeches. Now, I’ll only ever do 20 - 30 lessons per day as it’s far more managable for me.
Things that have also helped me with maintaining consistency are:
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Timing my lessons so I can get an item to apprentice level 3 within a day (+4hrs +8hrs)
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The scripts WK Timeline and Reorder 2 - WK timeline lets me see when I need to do reviews so that I’m not wasting time constantly checking in on WK. Reorder lets me learn all Radicals for a new level on day 1, meaning I don’t have to grind through 40 odd Vocab lessons to get to them. This then allows me to balance learning the first set of the new levels kanji alongside vocab from the previous level.
These are things that most WaniKani users (from what I can tell) are familiar with. However until recently I didn’t know about them and they have been an absolute game changer, so hopefully this can help those, who like myself, are new to WaniKani. I learnt this from zEUs_japaneses’ guide on 'How to build an efficient WaniKani schedule (How to build an efficient WaniKani schedule (level up as comfortable as possible): the guide).
Best of luck to you on your Japanese learning journey!