The first few Dresden books were actually pretty awful if you go back and read them. Yeah, Aeronauts windlass was pretty awful. But the codex alera series he wrote was actually pretty good.
I mention it pretty often on this thread but for his books, ski l audible and get the graphic audio, so much better.
I loved the era 1 trilogy so I went straight into era 2 books and loved that as well but am currently blueballed since 4th book isn't out. I would read era 1 and then decide on era 2.
If someone's committed to reading all the Cosmere stuff, then my recommendation would be: read all the novels, but for Stormlight stop after book two, pick up Arcanum Unbounded (the short story anthology, which includes Secret History) and read that, then continue with Stormlight. All the short stories start with a note about where they should be read in relation with the main books, but doing it this way lets you avoid worrying about that, and lets you just read Arcanum Unbounded all the way through. (I say to read it after book two of Stormlight because Edgedancer, the Stormlight short story, takes place between books two and three. And without reading it, a change in a particular character between those two books will seem to really come out of nowhere.)
