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.
