Love? No.
Appreciate? Hell yeah!
A Taurus M85 UltraLight Stainless is my EDC, in a pocket holster. I spent years carrying a full-size .45, trying to stay concealed in the Texas heat, before finally conceding.
The snubbie isn't enough gun, but it's some gun, and if I needed "enough" gun, I'd be packing rifles and shotguns and lots of buddies with rifles and shotguns.
I am 100% confident the .38 will always go "bang" when I need it to, at least the first five times I need it to.
To echo the others: stainless. Nickel just isn't attractive. I'd rather have worn bluing than cracked nickel.