I really liked it when S&W had model names. That gave them some class...
Combat Masterpiece... Terrier... Centennial... New Century... Military and Police...
Yeah, those were neat.
The whole thing with the switch to model numbers as the primary designation, yeah, I could see that, but I wish that they had laid out blocks of numbers for each frame size... say.... 1-30 for J frames, 31-70 K frames, etc.
The semi-auto numbers were so bad in the 1990s that S&W had to come out with a circular slide rule.