FSRS as a system aims to optimize the balance between review frequency and retention, to do this it will always eventually ‘reduce’ the reviews you are getting, this works great when its the same card you’re doing each time. In your anki deck the correct answer for 侍 is always going to be さむらい, however if you were asked on bunpro to give a grammar point in a sentence you hadn’t seen before with the target being an “Even if” type of feeling, its unlikely you’re going to lazer in on the correct point if you haven’t seen it for months after its been spaced out for so long, which is FSRS’s entire goal, larger spaced reviews.
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I agree to an extent but I also dont think FSRS would assist me with the Grammer aspect.
The answer has been answered, but also you can change a bit more in your reviews, from both Grammer and Vocab.
Out of curiosity, what do your review settings look like?
For Grammar is it fill-in or reading? Input or reveal?
Same for Vocab(assuming you use bunpro with vocab too)
How many new words or grammer points do you add a day? How much reading/listening do you further do a day?
How often do you change the method that you study?
I change up how I study every so often and my retention takes a hit, because my brain gets used to seeing or thinking in a way to answer questions. It takes me a while to get that back on track, and during that time I dont add anything new. I also dont ever cram because that seems like time I could be reading manga or the like.
I also have bunpro at its hardest strictness, so it never gets to a point that I forget and then dont see it again for a week or a month. I see it within an hour, two hours, four, eight ect.
This is a common complaint ive seen from a few people, and so changing it has helped me. I also do a shit ton of reading everyday so I read the grammar points quite a bit, and as such use input as an attempt to bridge that gap to speech.
I also just changed recently my vocab to reading from the jp->eg I was doing before. Now, if I dont understand how the word is interacting within a sentence I mark it wrong. this caused my retention going from like 90% to like 70, and finally I’ve evened out around 80.(Again, Im attempting to understand the entire sentence and sometimes I will only know the single word within the entire sentence).
Everything has its own issues obviously as we all know, and I think when it comes to grammar FSRS, unless each and every sentence will be its own card, I think it gets a little complicated because many cards(Verb based) will have you utilize multiple points of Grammer while its asking about one(Passive-Causative+いけない type shit). As well as the many different types of ways of saying the same thing. As such, approaching grammer like its vocab wont work and with that, even bunpro is flawed imo, albeit it does help with seeing and using it on a somewhat frequent basis, and more often than not, shows me more methods of how a piece of grammer can work.
Anyway tl;dr change up those settings, change up your methods, and dont stress to much on that number at the end. Can you read/talk/listen more or less day to day and understand? That there is that end goal.
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Sadly, that is just how most online spaces work 
Advice gets usually more generic and less helpful the longer a discussion goes on.
I hope you’ll notice better retetion with the fix. And I would be curious to know if you ever find out what made the current learning stage harder for you, than the stages before. Since you’ve been using bunpro for years and so far hadn’t had such trouble with your retention, it’s likely that something else has changed for you.
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I’m sorry, I didn’t have an intend to offend you 
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まじでやばい草草草
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I just set the strictness to 2 right now and ghost on mistakes. Not sure if this is best for me but I’ll figure it out as I go along I guess
Thank you. Apology accepted
This is a really, really, REALLY weird response as what you’re saying is that the answer is for the person to stop using BunPro rather than BunPro to be improved to better help someone like him.
Like, why would you say something like that? Why would you not want the system you use to be more useful for other people as well?
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I completely agree but don’t bother engaging with ppuncher - that’s an anonymous account with no level or badges. It’s probably Jake.
Further off topic, but to contrast your point, one can have a vested interested in the features that are prioritized for an app they like to use. If more SRS customization is added, it means some other feature is set aside for it.
Software devs need feedback (and many other inputs) so they can prioritize work.