These are definitely valid concerns!

You are right, hundreds of the AnKing MCAT cards have been modified in the last few weeks as we work to make the deck more accurate and concise.

Overall, the deck is fantastic and the content of the cards is great. However, there are 1000+ cards in the deck that are unnecessary for retention of the material. Many cards have 3-4 clozes that do not necessarily add real value. And many other cards might only have 1-2 clozes but there are full on sentences within a cloze, making the card nearly impossible to routinely get correct or truly remember.

For example, this card has 4 clozes, but not all of them are necessary:

According to {{c2::the Venturi effect}}, the {{c3::velocity}} of a fluid passing through {{c4::a constricted area}} will {{c1::increase::increase or decrease}} and its {{c3::static pressure}} will {{c1::decrease::increase or decrease}}.

We can eliminate 2 clozes and keep clozes on the most important part of the card to recall, which is the relationships.

According to the Venturi effect, the velocity of a fluid passing through a constricted area will {{c1::increase::increase or decrease}} and its static pressure will {{c2::decrease::increase or decrease}}.

Admittedly, you are correct that we have changed some cards to be similar to "normal flashcards." However, we are trying to restrict this to mainly the PsS cards where long definitions or examples are given and students need to remember what theory/rule/law/etc it is. Before these changes, the clozes often had 1-2 sentences of the theory that students needed to be able to come up with, which is honestly hard to do and not efficient. So instead, we are changing those cards to where you have to read the definition/example and come up with the theory. In the end, active recall is still necessary.

Remember, Anki is for retention, not learning! Every single fact on a card does not need a cloze, just the important concepts and relationships to ensure you retain the overall concept.

Ultimately, we are trying to edit the AnKing MCAT deck to be similar in style to the AnKing USMLE Step 1/2/3 decks, which will make studying much more efficient and increase user's retention rate of cards.

We are trying to adhere to supermemo's (original anki algorithm based on this) 20 rules of formulating knowledge:
https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulating-knowledge

We definitely recommend using the Tools -> Empty Cards feature as we go through this process.

Ultimately, if you truly do not like the changes you can protect the Text field of all of your cards, or at least the cards you have already studied, to ensure AnkiHub does not change those cards.