Well, you're totally right, that's a huge problem I have with the epilogues and postcanon in general. It seems like. Very artificially constructed for creating shocking character dramas and controversial emotional moments. I have actually done a considerable amount of suffering here on this mortal coil, but even still, I find misery porn to be completely unrealistic. Every time I have been at a nadir in my life, I have been able to keep moving forward. Even though I have been through so much, there are friends I have lost and friends I found and friends that I have kept for decades.

So if you think that it's unrealistic, unenjoyable storytelling, and that it doesn't have much to teach you, and it doesn't have much entertainment value, and you don't really benefit in any way from grappling with its pointless ordeals... Why not just dig your heels in and ignore it? Act 7 is a pretty neat cutoff point from Homestuck, and it becomes surprisingly easy to write off the rest when you realize that it's even less planned out and meaningful than the most rush-job improvised parts of the preceding narrative.