Hmm. I guess if you didn't enjoy the first episodes you would not enjoy it to the present episode. It hasn't changed much, only the feeling of watching the series all this way can the characters grow a little more on you.
I find interesting the information that they are giving on the world of mangaka/editors and how it generally works. To see some critical analysis of some characters is pretty cool to, because it really works like that.

I never completed a comic Party series, but from what I remember, Bakuman has a more realistical approach to the making of the work.