For me, point of view isn't particularly important as long as the writing is at least competent. There is some godawful trash that couldn't be saved regardless of what person it's narrated in. In my opinion, skilled writing trumps minor concerns over preferred point of view ever time.
That's fair. It's not a foundation-level aspect of writing. Your story's got to have an engaging plot, interesting characters, and a prose style that doesn't seep such violet effluent as to make one extract one's hair from one's follicles. But I think knowing the proper perspective for your story can make the difference in all of those things: the same plot can be way more engaging, the same characters far more interesting, and the same prose more acceptable if you only change the reader's relationship with the world. A good analogy would be camera placement on a movie set: it won't save a script written in crayons, but it has the power to separate good stories from great stories. I guess really I'm arguing against the idea of "preferred" points of view altogether.
