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Whilst I agree that using unusual tense and POV just because it is different is probably best avoided, there is more to literature than simply a story - there is also the way the story is told. Sometimes the way a story is told is actually more important than the story itself. Think of an analogy with painting - there is what the painting is a painting of - some sunflowers or a pope or a woman weighing some pearls for example. Then there is the means by which the painting is rendered - van Gogh's sunflowers are not a really very much like sunflowers and Francis Bacon's pope pictures are not very much like real popes. Tense and POV are tools in the writer's toolbox that they can use to bring about particular effects, just like laying on thick paint with particular brush strokes or smearing the paint so that the image becomes indistinct. The key thing is to use these tools consciously, rather than just using them because everyone does it that way - or alternatively, because nobody does it that way.
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