1. learn the concept
2. break it into atomic question/answer pairs
3. define some dependence relation for all these pairs (X is foundational to Y and Z but not A)
4. input them into your SRS of choice
Each of these steps require significant amounts of time and brainpower. Also it would be harder if you were still learning the concept since you'd continually need to go back and redefine relations as your understanding grew.
On the one hand all this would be a great way to understand a subject. On the other, one could argue that it's very inefficient, and it would be better to not bring SRS into it all all. Compare this to say a vocabulary card, which you make, enter into SRS, then you're done. So far this (the vocab thing I mean) is the only SRS use-case that makes sense for me.
The hard part might be the UI for finding and selecting the dependencies for a new item.
Even in something as basic as language learning, it would allow to commit idioms and common collocations (words "often used together") to memory once you know the original words - a nice "next step" after pure vocab.