I used to get a warning when completing a lesson would automatically mark remaining blue words as known, but I just discovered that I no longer get warned (and thus accidentally marked a lot of blue words as known).
I honestly wouldn’t like to have another click to do at the end of each lesson. If there is the possibility to add the option to have the warning, or not, it would be better, because I definitely prefer less clicking.
They could make it on by default for users that turn the “paging moves words to known” feature off. Or even create a toggle that allows you to have warnings for clicking the end of the course button on, but those suggestions may be too complex for LingQ to implement (b/c they seem to be having trouble implementing a basic warning for users, period), but many users accidentally clicking —because of the interface design — finish course versus more clicking is a much more destructive action in LingQ currently.
So I think having a warming message pop up for users is a far better option rather than not implementing it because it adds some extra clicking.
I agree that the problem is mostly for people that have “paging moves words to known” disabled. But if you turn that feature off, I suppose you have a logic in your studies that might made you aware of it. I see people that mention this problem especially at the beginning, I probably made that mistake as well a couple of times. I guess we learn more by suffering.