It's just an age and nostalgia thing isn't it? If you were a part of 'Generation X' or the 'Slacker generation' as they were variously labelled at the time then you'll probably remember this period fondly. If your memory stretches back farther than that then these years just seemed dumb and excessive mostly. Of course I'm in the latter category.

The whole aesthetic of the 1990's comic book scene and it's tropes were just vulgar to me and actually drove me away for a few years, something that would be unthinkable now. But hey, the 90's did produce some good runs despite all that and also produced Kingdom Come so it wasn't all bad. Had I been a decade younger then I may have considered it 'EXTREEM TO THE MAX DUUUDE!!'. Good, bad or ugly? Definitely ugly.