I don't particularly like reading first person (although there do exist writers who do this well), but honestly, people can write whatever point of view they want to. Whether or not the reader would actually like the point of view the author picked is dependent on the author's skill and the reader's prejudices.
Point of view is something that I have to grapple with at the very beginning of the idea--before writing and even before any substantial planning. For me, it's essential that I know who is telling the story. Because things can change substantially from one character to the next.
Up until last year's Nano project, I had been doing third person limited with a particular focus on one female character. In a way, this was an easy default. Since I'm female, I already know their thinking processes. And doing it in third person allowed me to distance myself from the character at the same time. But last year was an interesting challenge as I deliberately shifted the point of view to first person of a character whose gender was somewhat ambiguous (although if one wanted to put a finer point to it, the character was nominally female).
This year, I'm switching back to third person, but I'm going to focus on a male character. I'm not too worried about getting his thinking processes correct (I'm aiming to write him as a person, not a gender), but in some ways, this is going to be an interesting case. The majority of short stories that I've completed have a guy as a main character. But I have never tried an extended piece, like a novel, with one as a main character.
