I think those characterizations are on point. Said Russell of Plotinus: "Whatever one may think of him as a theoretical philosopher, it is impossible not to love him as a man."

I found it intriguing that he muses whether Love (a version of Love) is the daemon "which they say accompanies each of us, our personal Love?" (Using the Boys-Stones, Dillon, Gerson, et al. translation.) Provocative.