Depends entirely on the story and how it's handled.
I really hate the ones (seen a lot in lower-budget films and TV) where it's used to tell the actual climax of the story, like via flashbacks and stuff. It feels really cheap because i've been asked to spend however much time investing emotionally in the characters and then i don't even get to see the climax in real time.
But as an epilogue in a book i actually kind of expect it. My brain is wired to think of fiction books to automatically have prologues and/or epilogues and i like they way a timeskip rounds out the story; they normally work better in books i think anyway because the format of chapters makes the break between times feel not so abrupt, in visual media the transition has to be explicit else people will get confused, but that can also make it feel out of place and separate from the rest of the plot.
I feel like they need to be short though. Ideally all of the loose ends are already tied up , this is just something to say farewell to the characters or possibly introduce a teaser for the sequel. If it's too long you might as well just continue the story for another few chapters yeah?
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Wait, do people actually use timeskips to explain the climax retroactively? That sounds awful! Haha, don’t worry, I definitely still have a proper climax. The timeskip is the denouement. :p And to that end it sounds like you enjoy them, which is good to hear. I know it’s hard to say without actually reading it, but on your comment of length, does about half as long as a normal chapter seem good. That’s about where it falls.
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Yeah i've seen it done a few times, where they clearly didn't have the money to produce the full-scale climactic cyborg battle scenes (nor the imagination to do it a different way) so they just cut to the end of the battle and have the remaining characters talk about what happened over very short and blurry flashbacks. One of the least immersive things i have ever experienced. Half a chapter seems fine. I guess it makes sense for it to be a similar length to your prologue, if you have one of those?
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Ha, I guess it makes sense if it’s a cost thing, but it’s still really dumb. :p I do have a prologue, but it is [i]way[/i] shorter. I think it’s only 4ish pages long? I’d have to go check. There wasn’t too much to say in the prologue, though. Which makes sense, I think; I didn’t have plot threads to wrap up in the prologue.