It feels like WK somewhat loses its way partway through

[ShinySand]

@simias

I wonder if one of the problems is not that WK’s “radical” system is too strict and limiting. They can’t introduce radicals at will without risking messing with the balance of the progression, too many radicals in a level and it messes with the kanji unlocking, not enough and it turns into a “fast” level.

@simias

In particular I find it extra silly to reintroduce learned kanji as radicals, then force you to go through 4 SRS steps for them. I’m level 29, I don’t need to drill 上 ’s meaning 5 times in a week!

It definitely feels like a lot of radicals exist just to gate content. In fact, according to this post something like 323 radicals (or about 2/3 of all radicals) had corresponding kanji on WaniKani. That’s about two full levels worth of redundant items.

While I do like the level-system, I don’t think it justifies that kind of busywork.