Why it's hard to like stories written in first person

[One Above All]

I started writing in first person. It limited my storytelling abilities, making it impossible to show readers events I considered important. I later realized there were things I could have done to lessen the restrictions it imposed, but when I changed to third person omniscient narration (like every book I remember reading did), the freedom it granted me was breathtaking. I could jump from one area to the next, showing readers everything I wanted, important or unimportant. However, there's one story I thought about writing in first person, and even started writing it as such, if I'm not mistaken, but I came across some events that were simply incompatible with that kind of narration, so I decided against it.