Taking it slow may of helped for more solid connections. I finished RTK in 60 days and that was a bit rushed so some days my reviews don't go so well and I need to take more time to concentrate on the story. 3 months later and my reviews are settling around 30-40 a day now. But i continued to to do the reviews because 3 months later my sentence deck still only has maybe 600 characters so theres about 1600 kanji that I know how to write that I haven't seen in a sentence even once let alone a couple different readings and uses. I feel its necessary to keep up the reviews at least until your sentence deck is pimped out with near all the kanji you feel necessary before moving on.

I delete a lot of the keyword that don't make sense now that I know a lot of Japanese via reading. So it's fine. It will eventually all go to place, just maintain it

If you want to be able to use and retain the characters, you'll need some sort of practice, obviously, but there are lots of approaches.  If you don't care about being able to write, doing a lot of reading might be fine for you.  I chose to keep up the reviews.  It only takes a few minutes every day now, in any case.

Thanks everyone - this makes sense and I really like the "10 min a day at least" approach.

I guess....I can't be done with these damn cards yet haha.