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I feel like furigana is a liability for my long-term success so I am going to rip it out of my Japanese studies where possible. I know it's handy but in the back of my mind the thought of one day turning it off, and my reading plummets, puts me off it.

Also in my grammar studies (thankfully, I am new to it so it won't ruin my SRS too much) I am disabling furigana there and also the nuance hints (e.g. it tells me I need an object marker there). Well great, that's most of the learning taken away.

I wonder how it goes for you because on Bunpro forum I've seen people complain about N5 grammar being tough to fill in without enough information. I can't speak for myself because I had already passed N5 when I started using Bunpro. But it's just something I wanted to make you aware of 🙂

I'll let you know! It's technically experimental for now so if I hit roadblocks that make it frustrating I'll tune it. 😅

That's totally fair, finding out what works best for yourself is the hardest part of language learning 😂 Actually I also think my Bunpro study could be more effective if I forced myself to read the full sentences but I always feel like having too little energy for that 😅

Tbh I got used to the feeling, my whole language journey for all those years has been extremely suboptimal 😂 And actually I'd say try to optimize only if you already have a sustainable routine because steady slow progress is still better than doing nothing 😃

Update on this I've had to enable hints again. 😂😂 You were right.

Haha, that were people from the forum 😂 But from my experience it may be hard to drop the hints in grammar later on as well because on higher levels you'll start getting synonymous grammar like 10 different ways of expressing "when" so then you can either guess or use the hints lol 😂