Well it is my perspective. It worked plenty good for me. Alot of the problems that people had were because they were buying junk PC's that would have been unstable no matter what you put on them. Also there are some pretty poorly written software applications out there. If you were using those then anything could happen.
Your qualitative assessment of Win98 vs. Mac OS 8 was incorrect. I corrected you. And you agreed. It was subjective.
I am also correct that Win98's initial release was buggy as hell. This wasn't due to the software being used. Rev. 1 of Win98 was not ready for prime time. Rev. 2 was fine.
Win98, after years of development was a lemon. After Microsoft fixed the problems, Win98 turned out alright.
As for citing your "friend's" experience as an Apple employee, etc, etc... Please have him post his experiences first hand.