Looking at my logbook I see that I have 4470 hours on the 737-200. The bulk of those hours I operated out of Birmingham. England. EGBB.
Birmingham has a 15/33 runway and the prevailing wind is 250/ 15 gusting 20 on a good day. On a bad day you would spend all day fighting a max crosswind.
The -200 was dependable and predictable at the edges of its crosswind limits. The best I have ever flown on a nasty day. Quick to turnaround, almost never broke down, and did exactly what it said on the tin.
The -200 was a light aeroplane pretending to be a big one.
I then went to the A319 at EGBB.
The A319 in 250/25 gusting 40 ish was a pig. A huge big black overcomplicated sow after the 737. But that is another story.