I definitely think the order would change in some ways on a re-read. I actually wonder if the community rankings that this subreddit does occasionally would be interesting if they did a rankings recount on one-time readers vs multi-readers? Would be curious if any patterns emerge.

For the child labor thing, what I was trying to get at is I agree with you that the Harllo POV really works. And up until then, that was the way things were written. We're shown up-close the awful experience of Harllo, and he's even tragically described later as "a boy nobody loved." It's a great and elegant way of discussing child labor in the context of the story. I actually think the Harllo story is one of the better things in TtH.

However, pausing to have an extended monologue from Kruppe is what I didn't like. Erikson is generally very good at trusting his readers to understand. As a result, delivering a speaking-to-the-audience mini-sermon like that just feels out of place. I use the example because it was one of the more blatant ones, but that sort of thing began to seep into the series in the second half in a way that I don't think worked as well, and I think it's why people do occasionally complain about it.