[Loyal]

The thing that bugs me about the recent plot direction (besides, y'know, the plot direction) is that the one person who'd remember anything of what happened in the last four years realtime - that being John - has spent those four years being as utterly unimportant as possible while still being relevant to the plot. Other characters don't remember anything because of the cosmic retcon, and John doesn't remember anything because he was never fucking there for any of it.

Of course, the other issue is that, as mentioned, we are now skipping over the "new" timeline with montages and shit, so as much of a waste of time the last four years have been, we also aren't going to see any of what happened since the retcon - plot advances, characterizations, dialogue, ANYTHING - until it catches up roughly with where we left off in the old timeline. Not even with the most pivotal change, Vriska. Yeah, she's an awful person and a blight on decency, but she was actually pretty entertaining when she's just shooting the shit, and we don't get even that.

There legitimately does not seem to be much of a reason to read Homestuck proper anymore, until it reaches its eventual conclusion with the heat death of the universe, since if you're interested in fan-wank what-ifs, the fans do it better, and if you're interested in the characters interacting with each other, the fans are the only ones doing it at all.