hi pancake,
What you describe sounds absolutely fine to me. If you pick a slotted pot it can be a bit bigger, the aim is to pick what keeps the orchid moist enough. You want to pick a substrate + pot that dries sufficiently between watering. If it stays too wet then picking a smaller pot will ensure it dries faster but if it works then that is the most important thing. We still have to make it work. There is no magic rule on what size pot you should be using. It will be depending on your climate, how much you like to water, how much your orchid is growing and so on.
I can see some broken roots on the picture but it looks like they were already broken when you got the orchid and have since dried up, the healthy roots should in theory still be ok buried underneath the substrate.
Do the roots still turn green when you spray water on them? They are starting to look a bit brown which does happen over time but if it happens too fast it could be an indication that they are getting too much accumulation of fertilizer.
So have you been feeding this one by any chance? The roots look like they have fertilizer salt buildup but the picture is too small to see for sure.
I would not worry about the pot or the substrate as much as your watering and fertilizing. The orchid needs to dry but it should not remain dry too long between watering, again there is not set schedule to watering, if the orchid has dried enough and the roots look thirsty then it is time to water again even if it is a few days sooner than the last watering, The weather influences how much an orchid drinks so don't always stick to a set schedule, water it when it needs it.
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