Reading first person present just doesn't work for me unless there's some other severely redeeming quality about the text. Stick me that solidly in somebody's head and that head had better belong to somebody with outstanding thoughts. Unfortunately, first present is most likely to be plagued with the ordinary described in tedious detail. Why am I reading all this?
Mostly it just reads like somebody mistook a book for Instagram. I have read good work in first present - and if the story and writing is excellent, both person and tense can become invisible. But mostly they don't. They jump up and down in front of the page, waving their hands and I have to try and read the story around it. Done it for betas, won't do it for recreation.
It may also be a generation thing. When I was of the age to read YA, it didn't exist. We read children's books and went straight to adult books with some classics and non-fiction bridging any gaps. Children's books often read more realistic/sensible than YA these days. So even first person stories didn't really feel like the character's every twitch deserved to be immortalised in a book.
