Elegant is a word that is never used to describe a P-85 but those Ruger pistols had a lot going for them. Ruger got the firing pin issue sorted out quickly (there were some early failures, but the fix was simple and complete) and from that point forward, the P-85 was rock solid but never pretty. Had Ruger got that pistol to market a little sooner, they would have had a stronger foothold in that market.
The longevity of the 9mm Luger cartridge has led to many excellent pistols chambered for that cartridge. Obviously, the Browning Hi-Power has its strengths. The Glock G17 was the father of all the Glock 9mm offerings, and we are now in the 5th Generation of production that started in the early 1980’s. You would be hard pressed to get a SIG 225 (P6) to stop functioning. The CZ-75 is an excellent blend of old-school, all steel, construction mixed with a very good DA/SA action, and superb accuracy and durability. A Beretta 92 will feed and fire just about any cartridge that sort of looks like a 9mm Luger cartridge.
And as others have pointed out, the proliferation of the cartridge is a huge plus. The quote, “Quantity has a Quality of its own”, has often been attributed to Joseph Stalin but the statement clearly pre-dates his miserable existence on earth. I’m no fan of Stalin or his Marxist ilk, but there is a lot of reality in that statement.