I wasn’t aware of people’s expectations about this until reading the thread about changing SRS timings in WK proper yesterday. I walked away a little frustrated, to be honest.
Clearly, there’s a group of the-more-engaged users who are driven to use WK because they can get the thrill of speedrunning from it. And the fact they’re also learning something is a fantastic happy accident. However, reading that thread there’s also a lot of inflexibility/rigid thinking about the way SRS timings are currently configured as being “right” based on habit or routine or just because it’s the way they are.
The reason KS has the timings it does is because I initially set them up to be what WaniKani reported that they were (and apparently the 1 hour savings thing was actually a bug), as I did additional research into the—more important than habits/routine—actual learning efficacy of those static timings versus other approaches (instead of dynamic ones).
So while I don’t plan on making the adjustment you’re asking for, one thing I am working on is developing a dynamic SRS timer that’s based on a combination of factors and statistics and then experimenting to see if it improves people’s outcomes. I ask for your patience in the meantime, but always welcome ideas
(By the way, if anyone reading this knows anyone working on a foreign language or linguistics masters or PhD and wants to work towards this, let me know!)