@whocares : Hopefully Anki will support studying in a fixed order within the next one or two years. This is a popular request and the Anki developer doesn’t seem to be opposed, see Anki 2.1.45 Beta - #69 by dae which is an answer to this question Anki 2.1.45 Beta - #41 by basiskarten . This should be useful for you, too.
Spaced Repetition and active recall testing are great and imo much more important than to only use atomic cards. So use whatever works for you. I’m mostly advocating to experiment. Spaced Repetition Software is useful for most people for years so experimenting for some time in the beginning offers a good cost benefit ratio. The good thing about Anki is that it’s popular, it’s been around a long time and will be around for a long time and it’s pretty flexible so that you can adjust it to your needs - at least more than most other software where usually the answer is “doesn’t work change your workflow”.
with hint fields I meant this Field Replacements - Anki Manual Some people actually have fields like Question1, Answer1, Question2, Answer2 in their NOTE and in their card template they have added all these fields to the back of one card and all the answers are set as hints (that are hidden until you click them).