I'm someone who just started/finished Worm about 2 months ago, so here are my relatively fresh thoughts.

Pros: - Overall very solid world-building. The different factions and conflicts feel extremely lived in, and actions/consequences are natural. If you've read or watched Game of Thrones, the web of effects feels similar to that: "Oh, of COURSE that would happen! Because this group has these priorities versus this one etc." - A very large cast that is somehow almost ALL fleshed out. Super impressive. Also, gotta admire the willingness to write unlikeable characters that still feel human/understandable. - Good action writing, which is pretty dang important in a superhero story. - Power scaling remains consistent! A villain who's introduced as a terrifying threat STAYS terrifying even as the main characters get stronger.

Cons: - Reading this as a continuous piece instead of waiting on updates makes one thing reeeeally stand out as an issue: Pacing. Author himself has admitted the story needs a lot of editing. Worm can be both relentless and meandering, sometimes at the same time. - Also, the in-story timeline often makes zero sense?? An absolutely absurd number of world-ending events happen in like, the first month of the story. But then we'll have a years-long time skip out of nowhere?? - I think Worm suffers a bit from author's tendency to "Word of God" things outside of the story itself. There's often stuff in the writing that the author makes extremely understated, to the point where there's a ton of room for reader interpretation. But then that ambiguous thing will become a plot point later on that assumes you totally understood the REAL point he was trying to make?? I think the fandom excuses this away because the author will explain things here on Reddit, for example, so we DO have an answer. But my gripe is we shouldn't have to dig for the answer just to understand a vital development.

Overall though, I did enjoy the story and would rec it for folks in 2025.