Hmm?　There's all sorts of "noise" that are generally considered a positive thing, at least in certain contexts. After all, the end goal in most cases isn't perfect information capture, it's communicating emotion/feeling/message/etc, and "degrading" an image can add something (just not the original thing).

Of course the correlation between certain types of noise/distortion and the resulting interpretation is in many cases culturally determined, and that changes over time... One minute shakycam is considered the height of immersion, the next, it's an embarrassing affectation.

But still, there's nothing inherently wrong with preferring something "worse," especially when the latter judgment is made on a narrow technical basis which misses the larger picture.