I agree with the general consensus that Act 6 was where the comic's enjoy-ability/quality took a nosedive, BUT: If you enjoy act 6, more power to you! I'm not going to be the fun police. I also ended up liking the epilogues despite fully expecting to not like them based on everything I knew about them going in.

I think a lot of the "detachment", though, has to do with the HS "fandom" which is... infamous, to say the least? Even without getting into "toxic fandom" discourse, it's certainly a space that's noticeably different. I heard someone describe it as "A place that operates by its own rules; You go in, you come out different." That can naturally lead to feelings of detachment.