I’m only at level 37, but I tend to gloss over the mnemonics. I know some people absolutely swear by them, but they get jumbled in my mind personally and so I prefer the good old “just write out and study the kanji” method. Could have something to do with that being ideal for deskwarming time at work though. I honestly forget that a lot of the draw of WK is the mnemonics and not “I don’t have to think about this SRS system because it’s all here for me”.
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I’ve gone through WK, I used the mnemonics, it helped me. Doesn’t matter what level the kanji, you can make a mnemonic out of anything. Usually the actual mnemonic gets forgotten after 3-4th straight pass and I just know it plus with the vocab reinforcements. I found the concept WK to be very effective but as a platform, somethings I would change.
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I tried WK once but I couldn’t get into it. I’m a big fan of SRS systems, but I already knew a lot of kanji – I could read at N3-ish level – so the mnemonics just got in the way for me.
I found the app Skritter more to my liking, and I kept up with that for a while, but then I focused my effort on vocab and grammar and reading (recognition over recall). One day in the future, I’ll get back to studying kanji. 
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I’m only halfway and already the kanji are looking very similar to each other so yes, the mnemonics can get messy and are less useful once you get lots of radicals showing up in a kanji.
However, there are multiple mnemonics for each kanji and the kunyomi reading mnemonics are very, very useful because it doesn’t matter how complicated the kanji is. The kunyomi mnemonics have nothing to do with radicals and are equally useful at all levels.
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to bring this discussion back to its headline: I’m currently trying to learn N3 grammar (have only a few points in N4 left)
I try to add new grammar points when my daily reviews go below the amount of reviews i wanna do daily (20-30). When adding new grammar, i look through the “ALL” list and seach for points that i already encountered somewhere or that seem quite easy because it’s a vocab point i already know.
A few days ago i started with Tobira and therefore added all the grammarpoints from chapter 1
I think it’s a good method to use the Textbook paths so you can simultaniously read the explanations in f.e. Genki and do the practices
(especially helpful with grammar that just doesn’t stick through SRS alone or points I keep mixing up, I had a huge problem with honorifics so doing the practices in Genki really helped with that)
I also deactivated ghosts because i make many mistakes and with ghosts my reviews just went bejond a reasonable amount. Tbh most of my mistakes come from wrong verb conjugation so maybe i should practice that again seperately 
I also sometimes use the audio feature to try and shadow some sentences, but the audio is soo fast it’s quite challenging (if not undoable for me at the moment) to keep up with that speed.
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Just replay a lot, it really gets better over time. At the beginning, I couldn’t even keep up with N5 sentences with listening only.
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Aren’t the ghosts there to give you practice doing exactly that? If you switch them off and plough forwards learning new things without consolidating the things you’ve already added then that’s a bit like adding more and more floors of a building on top of a dodgy foundation. I would have thought that slowing down on new things and properly learning your existing stuff might save you more headache in the future.
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This is why I prefer minimal to regular ghosts.