I dunno about the Blow part. IME since the late 80s computing was mostly wrestling with bugs, crashes, and issues you had to solve mostly on your own, or just live with (t. Guru Meditation vet), and it was only worse during the 9x era. The relatively recent "everything works and is stable" era was more of an anomaly than how it always was.

I think it's a growing experience to some degree anyway. Suffering through Windows 98SE taught me some pretty useful practical skills and expectations that are still applicable in some capacity even today.