One of the (then) alarming things about the (then) new kid on the block was the low parts count- that and how easily those parts came apart and went back together. At the time, I was still holding up WWII-era pistol technology as the "norm," and it was not hard to conclude that if I fell into the creek, I'd rather strip and clean/lube one of these new-fangled Glocks than anything I had been used to carrying. I still scoffed at them, not knowing then about their durability.
If the components aren't designed - or manufactured - correctly, a low parts count is not necessarily a positive thing.* That being said, the Glock organization did a remarkably good job right out of the gate of both reducing the number of components and generally making those components right. Some companies that have gotten the applause of governments and gun cranks still can't manage to do it even 40 years later. The G19 remains my default recommendation for people who seek my free-and-worth-every-penny gun advice about what 9mm semiauto they should get, though if they are astute enough to tell me about special considerations they have, I get more diffuse.
But anyway... there is nothing wrong with buying the latest and greatest, or with trying out different platforms, or riding on the carousel in general if it doesn't either bankrupt one or waste too much of their finite amount of time. But for some of us who are not wealthy nor appear to have much more than threescore-and-ten years in this vale of tears, discovering at a late date that we would have been healthier, wealthier and wiser in picking a platform and sticking with it can be a bitter pill to swallow. It seems a bit like having good but plain meals, and enough of them... but dammit, once in a while a guy wants a piece of pie.
(My current favorite pie is a 5" 9mm 1911.)
*I used to make fun of what I considered John Browning's tendency to never use one part when he could use two or three do the same job; forty years later, I think I might understand why the 1911, Winchester 92 and Winchester 97 were designed and produced as they were and why they proved so popular with the people who used them as working tools on a long-term basis.