Likewise. IE, I upgraded the family's main PC, a 4.77mhz XT clone, to a 12mhz 80286 in... late 1988-early 1989 or so? and we stuck with that until... late 1991 or early 1992, skipping the 386 entirely. Our budget for the upgrade was less than two grand so we ended up ordering a 486/33 from one of those sketchy "make your own combo" ads in the back of computer shopper... you know, the ones that looked like this:
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(I remember the price of the "barebones" 486/33 being closer to $1100 instead of $656, so based on that I'm going to guess that it was closer to 1991 than the August 1992 issue of Computer Shopper this came out of. There doesn't seem to be anything like a complete collection of these things online. To fit in budget the choices were to get the 486 with only 4MB of RAM and keep using the monitor we had on the 286, or get a 386 and go bigger on the RAM and a new monitor right away. In the end I think we made the right choice.)
From my experience I'd say skipping the 386 generation wasn't that unusual of a path. It wasn't for *quite a while* after the 386 came out that software that could really use it went mainstream, and prior to 1990 or so the price premium for a 386 was pretty significant. (When I upgraded the 8088 machine baby-AT size 386sx boards were already out, it was a path we could have taken, but the price premium for just the board was something like $400-$500; that was a lot considering that would about pay for a VGA card and monitor, or a decent size hard disk, or... whatever. And it also would have been kind of pointless without buying a lot more than the 1MB of RAM we got with the 286 board.) By the time software that really could use a 386 came out the first gen machines were only marginally fast enough to even run it, so... yeah, I don't think skipping them was a bad idea at all given the viability of DOS as an environment into the early 1990's.
I do get the feeling, though, that people on slightly different upgrade cadences, say those who got into the PC game from buying a Tandy 1000SX or something in 1987 instead of a 4.77mhz XT clone in 1984-ish, were probably prime candidates to end up on the 386 track. The price premium for a 486 looked worth it when we bought, but go back only a few months and it would have been around a thousand bucks instead of just a few hundred, a fast 386sx looks like a good choice under those conditions. For the most part I think both tracks end up converging sometime around early 1996, when between Windows 95 and the Internet a Pentium-class machine starts becoming a practical minimum. (The 486 owners bought a few months of suffering trying to make the old machine work, while the 386 people knew right away they were screwed.)