Actually, revolvers are deceiving in that they are internally much more complicated (more moving parts) than a semiauto. Outwardly, they are indeed simpler to use. If you like them, than that is the weapon for you. I like them as well, especially in .357 although it is not my own first choice when I go shooting. I’ve recommended them many times to people who only want to own one handgun that is simple to operate.
Maybe so, but it is no big deal to totally tear a revolver completely apart (including all internal parts) to clean it. I have done it many times with my black powder revolvers.
In general a revolver is more tolerant may that be cheap or somehow defective ammunition, weather, etc. The revolver is as far as user break down is concerned, usually super easy, so is its cleaning. The extraction, self feeding, ammunition storage, and firing pin designs of many semi-autos are more prone to failure than the manufacturers lead one to believe with their perfect world accounts in some MTBF test. A defective magazine or a case with a damaged head might not feed or extract correctly, and with a revolver you would never even know there was something wrong with that round. We used older 38 revolvers in arctic infantry units all the way into the late 90s in Alaska such as 1-17 IN, 2-1 IN, and 501 IN when we still had an arctic mission. The Beretta already the mainstay in the US Army then, was not used by us because this weapon can fail in the arctic environment in which we operated.
As a civilian you are allowed to use ammunition not authorized in the military. You generally don't have to worry about bad guys wearing body armor either. A 38 is plenty, and it's what you load that makes the bigger difference vs. a much hotter round. Cheap ammo, low recoil, able to be small and compact, a 38 for self defense is just fine. -IMHO