Many have benefited and it makes it easier to swallow. However as it was before people were lulled into a false sense of positivity about snowfall and negative albedo feedbacks. That we could persist in this above average era for a long time (2 decades+). My initial abrupt climate change prediction (made in 2017) was 2020 give or take 2 years.
I am sure there was one or two that thought it could overcome the long-term warming trend but AGW is not a land-coupled warming. It begins in the ocean and warms the land with cloud cover feedbacks.