I meant more the excessive metafictionality and paradox-baiting; the (sometimes literal) fourth wall-breaking and heavy sense of irony and deliberately flat characterization is ... a lot to get dosed with, I suspect, and in my case reading PS helped me appreciate just how much better Hussie got at handling those things in Homestuck (like, for example, learning to appreciate that at least John could sometimes be a compelling character in his own right, rather than a blankly pleasant prop for Hussie to throw things at and call it cool).

PS is just plain not as compelling as Homestuck, but it's a useful tool for unpacking Hussie's narrative methods and characterization quirks - that's what I used it for, and it gave me a lot of helpful perspective on Homestuck's plot that way.