I agree with you, but there are some interesting gotcha's in this. Windows 3 accumulated cruft and needed to be cleaned or rebooted regularly. The company I worked for in the late 90's had a public safety customer that ran our code on a Windows 3.0 box, I can't remember the time interval, but periodically one of our developers would go on site and (in NuMega SoftIce - which we habitually ran everywhere) would reset the windows tick counter, and flush crap out of various OS handles tables.

Having done low-level messing about on 16-bit windows, when I moved to Redmond and started working for MS it was hard to drive past BurgerMaster without buying something in homage.