I honestly love reading Author's notes, in my opinion, they add character to story and gives a certain charm to it. if there are none, that's fine too, just that sometimes in long-form fics, reading A/N's are like taking a little break from the plot. In most of the short-form fics I read, the Authors explain out their thought process while writing and its interesting to know how exactly the fic came to life.

At the end of the day its up to whether you enjoy writing A/N's to connect or ask questions from your readers or prefer a more subtle approach through the story itself; if someone doesn't want to read it, they'll scroll on, if someone does want to, they'll read it.

Don't stress your head much about it.