Anki's editing tools are a really generic, and thus tricky to use, tool, agreed! Like many other anki users, I've ended up writing code that generates my decks

Anki's editing tools are a really generic, and thus tricky to use, tool, agreed! Like many other anki users, I've ended up writing code that generates my decks. If you can think of a better UX for editing cards specific to what you're studying, implementing a tool that creates and edits cards outside of anki, and then using anki for the study part, will probably end up being less work in total. If it's _only_ the editing part, that's solvable without having to rewrite the whole SRS system too.