You do have a point, but I wonder what's behind that 'love in math' you're talking about. I tend to think that curiosity is the only basic character trait needed to fall in love with something as basic as math, grammar, music or physics. However, the way this kind of love is triggered doesn't necessarily correspond to how it is taught in lower classes. At least when I went to primary school in the 90ies, 'math' was really just numerical algorithms (which are IMO not at the root of what math is, it's just one sub field). What can it be applied to in our daily lives? (considering someone doesn't take a higher math education) Knowing the price total in supermarkets, that's about it.
Couldn't we include symbolic math at a much earlier age? Children enjoy the building block properties of Legos starting at age 7 I'd say. How about we give them basic problem solving tools in math at age 10? I think we need to bring the potential feeling of achievement with mathematical tools to a much lower age. That could be geometry or color theory or basic physics (calculations with distance, velocity and time as an example).