It's true. I only ever bothered to watch DS9 after watching every other series and getting desperate for a fix. And now I feel bad for ignoring it after school all those years ago because it's a solid TNG successor.
I watched a few episodes early on but found it to be too boring compared to TNG, which I only casually watched because I was 9-10 at the time.
It wasn't until I graduated college, spent 6 months searching for a job loving with my parents and Spike TV was just making it's debut and it started marathoning DS9. Holy forking shirtballs I was pissed I never gave it a solid chance.
A lot of millenials did because they were too young to see what DS9 was trying to do, where Voyager was everything kids loved about TNG (flashy effects, cool set designs and humor randomly spliced through out the episodes, sometimes in inappropriate ways that do break up what ever plot was trying to hold it together.