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Hi Luca,
From this description, it does sound like a lot of your time is going towards repetition-heavy strategies, that are largely implicit learning-based. Like the chaining, rhythm/note groupings, etc.
And especially if you’re noticing yourself checking out mentally in some of these repetitions, I wonder if you could try doing more deliberate practice-type work? And this might be a little extreme, but see what happens if you give yourself a maximum number of repetitions to solve a problem before you have to move on. Say, give yourself maybe 5 chances (or 7 or 3, etc.) to solve a problem, and if you can’t solve it, move on to a different problem area, give yourself 5 chances there, etc. You can perhaps come back to the initial problem area later in the practice session, but the idea is to make each repetition more valuable, and avoid getting sucked into more and more mindless or unhelpful repetitions. This is a strategy that violinist Pamela Frank has suggested, and implemented herself because of her experience coming back from serious injury, but could be used anytime, even if there are no injury issues.
