@TW H - Your photos are gorgeous and your love of roses comes through. Clearly, you aren't just a rose grower, but a photographer as well!
I enjoyed your post, particularly the section "Choose the roses that you "really" love, not the one that is easy to grow". For me, personally, it's been good to have a variety of roses, some that bloom a lot but aren't my absolute favorite in flower form, and some that are my absolute favorite for blooms, but don't bloom a lot or have other problems. As an illustration, my favorite is Abraham Darby. It has taken me at least 7 years to learn to grow Abe, and those were years of frustration. Even now that I think I have discovered what he likes in my yard, he doesn't have the ease and ability to bloom like Bishop's Castle, but I'm glad I still have him and figured it out. Bishop's Castle is much easier to grow in my yard, the blooms are still beautiful and fragrant, but it doesn't have the color and flower form that is my favorite. But if I hadn't grown Bishop's Castle, I would have given up on Abe and removed him, and never tried again. My garden also came with two Knockout roses. They grew, they bloomed, and I hated the color, flower form, thorns, and bush shape. I ignored them for years, but they still grew and bloomed. If that had been my experience with roses, I would never have grown another. So although I agree with your advice to grow the ones you love, grow some that might be a bit lower on your list but easier to grow also. If you are lucky, the ones you love will also be the ones that are easy to grow. That may happen as well. Or the one that you didn't love "the most" turns into the one you love the most because he has the best personality, and the one that you thought you loved turns out to be a loser because of his bad habits. Roses. I'm talking about roses.
Q