Because I will admit it - I know objectively that it's bad and the old Life Of Reilly columns laid bare what a mess the planning had been and what's up with some of those costumes, but I read the Clone Saga when I was 12 and I still think of parts of it fondly. Ben Reilly, I still like him. JM DeMattias' two miniseries about Kaine and Ben (The Lost Years and that other one that I can't remember), I'd say were great even though they're nothing like the rest of the Spider-line at the time (probably because of it): stripped down takes on these two guys and their mess.
Maximum Clonage still had a dross ending. My 12-year-old self wasn't that dumb.