I’ve been doing kanji and radicals as soon as they unlock then the recommended 15 vocab a day and that usually has me finish vocab the same day as I level up but I don’t think thats going to happen at level 19. I’m like 3ish days from leveling up and just finished level 18 vocab and have 83 more level 19 vocab. Is this going to be the norm going forward from level 19? If so I’ll have to start doing more than 15 words a day which I dont really want to do. 15 feels pretty good and I’m not getting huge review days like before I reset my account.
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I’ll be honest, I think you’re setting yourself up for failure going this route. All kanji & radicals right away seems like a nightmare to me memorization wise, and then to top it off adding 15 vocab every day just seems like it’d be harder to retain everything efficiently and then you’ll get punished in 2-3 months time when it all falls on you in big batches again.
I personally do 10 lessons a day, doing all radicals whenever I start a new level and then I finish up vocabulary from the previous level before starting on the kanji for the next one. Once I start the kanji on a new level I do 5 a day and mix in vocab.
Admittedly I take things pretty slow, but I would recommend probably finding a middle ground. It’s better to make things a habit than grinding as much as possible until you burn out.
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I reset my account around level 20 something so so far all the kanji are review so doing them all at unlock isnt too bad for me now. I also make a quizlet set for each level for more memorization practice. When I start getting to new kanji I’ll probably have to slow down the pace a bit
I can confirm that a habit of doing all new items immediately comes back to haunt you. Don’t be like me. 
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There are only 118 vocabs in level 19, it’s the level with the less vocab since level 5… Going forward, it’s going to be about the same, you went through the peak already (level 5~15), now it’s about 100~120 vocabs per level.
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I feel like the WK ‘level-up’ is kind of an arbitrary milestone to plan anything around after level ~8-10 or so.
Up to that point I had been prioritizing doing any/all Radical and Kanji lessons whenever available in order to avoid running out of available lessons due to them being blocked by radical/kanji progress, then add vocab lessons depending on the size of the review queue (up to this point I didn’t even realize that leveling-up ignored vocab progress).
When I started integrating Grammar studies into my schedule at level 10 I had less time to commit to doing reviews so I tried keeping my queue smaller but continued to prioritize Radicals > Kanji > Vocab.
At that point I learned the WK level up system ignores vocab progress as I hit level 13 with ~250 vocab lessons from levels 11 and 12 still in the queue. I’ve been playing vocab catch up for weeks, and realized that 30-50% of a level’s vocab lessons now only use previously learned Kanji (so vocab lessons no longer come to a halt in a new level while you wait for your new Kanji to reach Guru) so after Radicals are learned I will just balance Kanji and Vocab lessons so as those Kanji reach Guru and unlock the Vocab that use them, the Vocab that don’t use them are already done.
Sure, this can be a hit to your ‘progress time’ when measured by how long it takes to complete a level, but when the amount of vocab in a level is 3-4x the number of Kanji, the idea that you’ll finish the Vocab on the same day as leveling up from finishing the Kanji (I’m not even sure how that’s possible when a lot of the Vocab is locked until you finish the Kanji??) seems like a crazy pace.
Levels 1-9: I took ~7-10 days to complete each level
Levels 10-12: I took 8-12 days to ‘complete’ (level-up) each level
Level 13 (on-going): I’ve been on Level 13 for 25 days, 2-3x as long as any previous level, but I’ve spent the majority of this time ‘on level 13’ just doing vocab from Levels 11 and 12 (will ‘level up’ tomorrow but still have a couple dozen vocab to complete), which is why Level is a bad metric to measure by.
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