If I remember correctly, the default is 20 new cards a day which is IMO still too much. Anyway, Anki scale in the sense that you don't have to do thousand card

If I remember correctly, the default is 20 new cards a day which is IMO still too much. Anyway, Anki scale in the sense that you don't have to do thousand cards if you don't want to. But the UI was designed to help combat psychological problems of tackling an intimidating amount of cards.