Yeah, I'm just being difficult. :-(

I was probably misled by the grammar, since you wrote "she's" instead of "she'd be". The difference between fact (she is) and possibility (she would be) changed the polarity of that last sentence for me when it was taken out of context.

Which it was, because in my effort to be difficult, I casually glossed over the second sentence which said that 'you kinda liked that about her', thus suggesting that the but-anyway shouldn't be interpreted in a negative way. It's not easy being this difficult! ;-)