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I read and enjoy a lot of books with no profanity at all. I like old-time SF and those words just aren't in those books. I read and enjoy other books with lots of profanity; I also like contemporary thrillers and crime novels and there are lots of x-bombs in those books.
As a writer, I don't think the usage of profanities and expletives means a lack of language skills, only the inappropriate usage of that vocabulary.
If I found a book told in the first person from the perspective of an inner city youth I would expect it to be laced with profanity because anything else would feel artificial and forced - untrue to both story and character.
I think people have every right not to read books for any reason, including the presence of profanity; and if enough people don't read books with certain language, publishers will stop buying them.
That's the market at work and I'd be fine with that even though I don't mind such language in books as a rule. (Profanity doesn't need to be in every sentence in every book, but I'd put that kind of overuse down to bad writing in general rather than anything specific to profanity.)
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