Generally the "tick-tock" of "amazing-shitty" holds up for Windows releases, but not for 98. I must admit I didn't think it was really like that at first.
Windows 95 was sort of mindblowing after 3.1
But Windows '98 was fantastic, too.
Windows 2000 was not my favorite.
Windows XP was fantastic.
Vista was a disaster.
Windows 7 was(is) incredible. GOAT.
Windows 8 did kind of suck out of the box. Windows 8.1 once you configured the Start Menu was a pretty solid OS.
Windows 10 is fantastic, and I understand why they basically have built backdoors into controlling your OS, especially with the updates, but I can't stand it. I hate that.