I started Bunpro on June 7th. I put on Mastered around 81 items, before that I followed the Genki Videos by Tokini Andy and read most of Genki 1 so all the particles etc were already quite known.
Every day in June, I did around 6-9 new items for the first half of the month, then I went up to 12-16 on some days for the last part of the month. I So basically, I had the 126-81=45 items of N5 and ~177 N4 points in my review log on July 10th the day I went to Japan for 20 days. So it was well worth it to have a bit of extra fresh understanding
To be honest, I don’t regret that at all. I think the only thing to keep in mind is to take the minimum amount of “complex” grammar point a the same time. For example, the そう、そうだ、ようだ… or all the honorific form caused my accuracy to drop from 80% to 60%.
So what I was sometimes doing is taking New Items “from further ahead”, but with items that were extremely easy, things like particles like のに “in order to”, etc etc.
But at the same time, learning those in vacuum is maybe not as good as learning them with real content to put them in your brain for the long run. FSRS is good to do the minimum amount of work to retain a maximum amount of flash cards, but those flash cards sometimes can give you a false sense of confidence. So I’d definitely make sure you don’t do that by sacrificing all the normal native input you’d get elsewhere.
But my opinion is, if you have time, there’s no problem doing more, as long as you’re not burning out. But some of us are able to study/practice/learn for long period, every day, without burning out. If it’s your case, why not ? As long as you don’t sacrifice everything else
For Anki, when I started japanese 6 months ago, I went up to 3-3.5h of reviews per day. It was exhausting, but the amount of vocab I learnt back then is tremendous compared to what I learn now with my 30min. Even if a lot of people told me it was bad to do so much Anki, there’s a lot of Kanji I just recognize now just because I spend a lot of times memorizing them in a vacuum. It’s just that if you only do that, then you’ll basically master all vocab and grammar but won’t still be able to understand/express anything confidently. So do a bit of everything, but as much as you want