Personally, I had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, out of 6.0.8 due to application requirements, even then I waited for the bugfix tuneup for 7 before switching.

I ran 7.0.1 (?) with the tune-up, until I bought a used 6360, because that was the cutoff OS for my 32 MB equipped Radius Rocket/IIX combo. IIRC the 6360 came with 7.x and a free 7.5 upgrade which I ran until AOL continually borked my system by trying to run, an intentionally deleted, Internet Exploder every time some Dumb@$$ site wanted it.

By then I had a Crescendo G-3/466 in my baby and enough RAM to run OS 9. So, except for liberated machines that booted into 8.x, I never really had any experience with it at all.

I think a lot of folks were in the same boat when it came to upgrading. When you had something that "just worked," why take a chance on a new OS until APP requirements forced it upon you? Even then, if you were smart, you still waited for the new OS to "mature" into a reliable bug-free environment before making the change.

I think that OS 8 was skipped over for these reasons by a lot of folks, hence, the apparent lack of love for it.