Another comment in this thread you might already have seen by now:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17100252
And there were other instances mentioned in other threads as well.
Some problems are not tied to a platform, but to their users. Power hungry people try to grab power where they can. If they can't be mod on reddit, they move to Lemmy. Here they can try to grow "their" space. If a topic already exists on one instance, they can move to another and shape the narrative and enforce rules how they like.
from my experiece: this style of displaying content is only ass if you visit the website for the first time and have a huge backlog of content.
ongoing comics with regular updates will mostly be frequented by visitors that already know all strips and just want to read the most recent one.
BUT (big but!): the fact that the navigation buttons for each comic say "previous" and "next" but will navigate to the next and previous chapter tells me, that the layout is not used as inteded. so... valid criticism!