This is a very Northern Europe/North America thread. I envy that you have 4 distinct seasons.
Here in the Middle east, autumn is just a slightly more reasonable version of summer, which is 7 months long, then comes “winter” which is kind of like the autumn you all refer to and because it is so mild there is not much discernible change when “spring” comes about and before you know it, it’s that blazing summer again.
Having said that, your lovely, romantic autumns precede your dark, horrid, depressing winters so on balance, I’ll take the heat.