I started out HATING the epilogues and started loving them after a few years when I reread them. Granted, I was like eighteen when I first read them, so.

I really love it. ESPECIALLY Candy. This complete deconstruction of suburbia white-picket-fence heterosexual-marriage-with-a-baby-on-the-way as the utopian ending validated so much of what I feel about growing up and about what's expected of you. And the idea of all of these characters backsliding meant a lot to me. Of course they're not better people. Of course in some cases they've actively gotten worse! That's part of what happens with trauma! And the metatextual elements of Meat, the tugging back and forth over the narrative, Dirk becoming a narrative to keep the story going because he's scared to not exist even if he won't say it. The imagery of Terezi with Egbert in a car at the end of the world, giving up on Vriska even as Vriska tries to reach her from across the time divide... it's really moving.

I will never understand how people say the characters are OOC in either Meat or Candy. They make perfect sense to me.