TL;DR: Your settings are close to default with some good additions (extra learning step, lapse steps). So if the previous settings worked well, there’s a good chance it will work well for the next deck too, as long as the difficulty levels of those decks are somewhat similar.
On the Easy button
When people warn you about pressing Easy too often, they usually do it because they have gone through Ease Hell:
Edit: In my subjective experience at least.
What does pressing Easy do? It matures the card, increases the ease factor and puts it out of the safe learning phase (steps) into the set Easy interval.
By pressing Easy too early in the learning phase, you could put your card in danger of lowering its ease if you don’t remember it the next few times.
Edit: The Hard button decreases the ease factor only if a card is matured. So maturing a card too early can lead to unwanted ease drops.
The danger of Ease Hell
An accumulation of lots of cards with very low ease levels will result in an unneccesarily high review load that is hard to fix without resetting ease alltogether.
Seeing a card too often can actually have a negative impact on your learning progress and you would be missing the advantage of spaced repetition (seeing a card just when you’re about to forget it, seems to be ideal for good progress).
A good strategy to prevent Ease Hell
An answer to Ease Hell: longer learning phase (more steps)
A good strategy to prevent Ease Hell from happening is to elongate your learning phase and avoid pressing Easy as much as possible.
So instead of 1 10 60
, which is a very short learning phase, you could go for something like 10* 120 1440 5760 8640
.
* I recommend a first step of at least 10 minutes, because the more cognitive work you put in when learning, the stronger the connections will be.
This way, you have plenty of time to fail the cards without dropping their ease. It will feel like learning on rails as long as the cards are in the learning phase. If you get irritated by weird intervals easily, you might find this relieving.
If you opt for that strategy, you should lower the starting ease a bit though.
My recommendation for you:
If your settings worked for you previously, I would not force any radical changes. You don’t have to turn every knob, the default settings are good enough too (made my medical entrance exam with close-to-default settings).
Try it with your current settings and see how it goes.