Cap on daily new items should be removed or at least increased to like 50. I think it’s pretty shady business to lock users into a certain pace with the reason being not wanting users to burnout when thats a very subjective matter. I’ve been interested in buying a subscription for a while but for me personally 20 a day is not gonna cut it and I cannot pay nearly 400 euros to unlock it. Just way too slow of a pace.
It’s been discussed a lot but the number or customers lost to the lowish limit is almost certainly less than the number of customers lost because of backlog build-up even WITH the limit in place (just look at the post history - there are more “too many cards” type comments than “limit is too low” comments).
Have you used and SRS system before? Since your queue will grow to a size that’s around 7-10x your new cards a day and slowly creep up from there it’s easy to get burried. It’s one of those things that feels dumb at the start, but really does bit you in the ass if you’re not super careful a month down the line and then you’re screwed because you can’t keep up.
With 20 a day, you’re daily backlog will end up hitting +200. Now you’re expected to get around 15% of those wrong so that’s 250 cards a day minimum (200 + 30-50 repeats of failed cards + 20 new cards). Even if you’re 100% locked in and doing cards pretty fast that still probably over an hour of HH a day. At that point it’s more worth your while to go do other types of study (watch some CI, read DuChinese etc) rather than hammering character reviews harder.
Your not alone though, others definitely want higher limits, but it’s been years and they haven’t increased it. I’d give it a few weeks and see if you still want to go harder though, might find out the limit isn’t actually that bad once your backlog builds up!