I tend to write present tense myself, as if written well that puts you into the moment and you get to experience it as it happens, there is no frame of safety, like with past tense, there is a feeling you are hearing someone tell about something that happened in the past, and if the narrator is one of the characters, then obviously they survived to tell the tale, and some of the tension is lost.
Also I have come to love first person perspective, since it lets you be in the head of a character and experience things from their point of view, it is also cleaner to write all their senses that way.
Third person is easier to give a full view of what is going on, but you lose the details of the full sensory and emotional inner life of characters, and I have yet to come up with a good way to write third person with all characters' senses, emotions, thoughts, actions, and words written in a clear way, but then I again I am sure that I am not the best writer, I do not even rank myself as good, but I thought I should share my two cents anyway.
For reading I like whenever a writer is comfortable with whatever style they choose and they tell a compelling story.
There is of course also second person and that can be really good, if written well, but it also removes agency of the person reading, and is harder to let yourself get into, so I understand why it is used sparingly.
Also there are other time forms that could be a fun challenge to write in, like describing what will happen, rather than what is or has happened, I am not sure one could write a story most people could read that way, as most of us are not oracles
I think the oldest time forms for our human languages is past tense, telling someone what we saw, and then present tense, telling us what we are seeing while our friend we are talking to is hiding and we are sneakily peeking around a tree at something we are hunting or other people of another tribe, or something like that. Later we also might have started talking about the future, but that is less well integrated even today into our languages, as we live in the present, we remember the past, and the future is always uncertain.