maybe my problem is that i was only really ever here for the characters
my problem is that i was mainly here for the game and the lore at first (and then started caring about a couple characters). but Act 6 was heavily character-driven, and SBURB remained a barely relevant backdrop in the second half of Act 6. so post-pause, all that sudden focus to game mechanics everybody had forgotten about felt jarring and artificial.
i think your problem (and everyone else’s problem) is that you were here for a big, complex, epic story called Homestuck
and that it ended like a small, nameless anime with a budget suddenly cut short and one episode left to wrap things up.
that’s why we’re all disappointed.