Roses should do better in mild winters. It is the cold that damages them, which is why it appeared as if snow helped them, becasue the cold dry winds didn't reach the parts covered with snow. Covering your roses during the winter is a good idea around here. As for warm winters, some plants do better than others. Bulbs are more likely to rot, or start growing and then get damaged when the cold returns, but conifers and other evergreens, tend to fare better during the warm winters. Plants that mainane some green on them all winter long (some daylilies, hellebores, beebalm) also fare better, as will your lawn. Siberian iris tend to look weak after a warm winter. It is all natural. Just as in a very cold winter, some things do better than other. Plant variety, and you will never be disappointed.

My snowdrops are flowering - almost three weeks ahead of the usual date. The iris reticulata are up and so is the leucojum which, in theory anyway, is a summer snowflake.
One problem with this mild winter is going to be bugs. Including deer ticks. And Japanese beetles.

Almost halfway through February, more seasonable weather now
doesn't seem like much of a hardship.
After all, it's just another month and a half til spring.

I'm hoping for another cool, wet one. The lilacs bloomed for many weeks
last year and so did the bulbs.
Hope all your early risers go back to sleep and revive in time.