Yes, Anki’s goal of “let’s quickly hide all the cards you know and only show you cards you are forgetting or on the edge of forgetting” has never seemed overly useful. The end result is the following algorithm: “let’s present you with the toughest things you can’t remember over and over again, and ignore all the facts you’ve done so well at learning (until you have almost, or completely, forgotten those facts)”

Throwing up cards you can answer in 1 second is not wasting anyone’s time. It is more likely to be encouraging to people to remind people of what they know.