/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've been talked into adjusting Anki's Starting Ease and Interval Modifier as shown, as apparently it avoids "ease hell" and gives better control over difficulty based on retention, but could someone explain to retarded me how exactly this will affect card intervals in practice? I've been using these settings for about 3 days (after resetting the ease on all cards to 131%) and so far intervals for young cards just seem to be increasing more slowly in general, but will they increase more quickly later on?

Also, I've seen a lot of people put learning steps of 1 or multiple days for new cards, could someone explain how this is any different to just having the card graduate to a 1 or 2 day interval?