I really like my autoloaders--I own four of them--and enjoy shooting them, but I enjoy shooting my revolvers even more. I like a compact revolver for CCW, and my all-time favorite gun to shoot is my Blackhawk Convertible.
Part of the reason is that I shoot better with a revolver. I grew up shooting revolvers. Back in the 1970s when I first started buying handguns very few people in my area had centerfire autoloaders. A few people had 1911s, which were universally Colts back then, and there might be a Smith here and there, but mostly we shot revolvers. I owned a couple of centerfire autoloaders, a Walther PP and a Stoeger Arms Luger. I liked the Walther, but it was a .32 caliber and I never really shot it that much. The Luger was an abomination. It was such an incredible POS that I swore off autoloaders for over 20 years.
Now I have some very nice autoloaders. My two favorites are a Glock 21 and a CZ75B, both of which I shoot fairly well, but revolvers still feel most natural in my hand.
Plus I like the slow pace of shooting a single-action revolver when I'm target shooting or plinking. What I like about shooting is that it pitches me out of my everyday existance. When I'm at the range, the whole world is condensed to the space between my gunsight and the point of impact on the target. It's almost like I'm living on the leading edge of the bullet as it travels downrange. There's no worrying about getting a contract out or an invoice turned in to accounting, no worrying about deadlines or mowing the lawn or hiring a plumber to fix the basement bathroom or putting a new brake master cylinder on the pickup. There are no thought of what to do when one's parents develop Alzheimers or one's boss' prostate cancer or one's aunt's funeral. When I'm at the range or out on my dad's farm shooting at a spinner target, my ear protectors blocking out all extraneous sound, I'm pitched out of all that. There's nothing but that ten ring resting in the notch of my rear sight.
I get the same sort of pleasure from riding motorcycle, especially on a race track. But that is a very fast-paced meditation (like 150-160 miles per hour). As I get older, I am starting to prefer a slower-paced meditation. Sometimes even an autoloader speeds things up too much. I can burn through a couple of hundred rounds pretty fast with the Glock or CZ. With the Ruger, the ritual of loading and unloading slows the pace considerably. I can think about my aim, about the adjustment of my sights, about my grip and my trigger pull between volleys. As a result, I do my best shooting with that gun and I also get my best Zen-like meditations with it, too.