Language aspect good, keep track of progress bad

Ive been using the relatively new addition to duolingo, Japanese, for over a month now and I like the language learning aspect of it. That said I have been having a lot of trouble with how it keeps track of my progress. When I only have one gap in a section Ive completed it sometimes takes me 2-4 times of perfectly completely a practice round in that category to get my bars back up to full. It also often doesnt count a section Ive done towards completely my daily goal so instead of doing 5 sections Ill have to do 6 or 7 to be sure I dont lose my streak. Today Im really irritated because I did completely my daily goal yesterday and when I opened the app this morning I was greeted with a message saying I had lost my 14 day streak and I could pay $3.99 for pleasure of getting back what I had already earned. This is frustrating and I hope that duolingo sees fit to restore my streak without charging me and fix these issues.

tzsk about Duolingo Learn Many Languages for Free, v5.1.6