that was more of an unintended side-effect, but very important. i started out more or less speed-running WK for the first 22 levels, which lead to a massive momentum problem. during the time i was working on my 1500 reviews pile, almost the same amount of reviews came got added to the pile by enlightened items coming up for burning. even without doing new lessons, i’d have had to keep up almost the same workload of reviews as before. indeed, for the first two or so weeks of working on my pile, it actually grew. but by being able to mostly just ignore the burn items (it’s been 4 months, another month won’t make a huge difference). eventually i was able to just do my normal reviews every day, and then at the end work through some burns (some days just a dozen, some almost a hundred).
WK tends to be very unforgiving of slowing down: you’ve done the lessons, it’ll give you the reviews. but this way i was able to go from doing 300 reviews a day to maybe 150 max.
i made a whole post about this: Beating 1500 reviews! a journey