Right now, I prefer writing in first-person, so that's my default.
However, when I started writing my first ghost manuscript, I began in the first person but quickly realized it'd be difficult to show all of the deaths from the first-person (at least, not without getting a bit silly), so I changed it to third-past... and wound up having at least 30 POVs by the end (some of whom only got a single chapter, although they were referenced or appeared in others).
The second ghost manuscript was also multi-POV, but stuck to a far more reasonable number of POVs (maybe 4-8?). Because one of the characters suffers from memory loss (forgetting their own identity), I decided to write that one POV in first-present.
And then for the kinda-horror example of my upmarket werewolf, the POV use was a gimmick
Otherwise, it's not so much that I use first-present because I write YA horror (or things adjacent to horror), it's more that I found a lot of elements to my approach worked better as a YA (ie, voice-ier first-person, the characterizations/relationships made more sense, and -- importantly -- a few of my ideas were on the shorter side where I could maybe get away them as a trade-pubbed YA but not a trade-pubbed adult (since 50-60k would be closer to novella territory).
Beyond that, there are advantages and disadvantages to each. When people harp on one or the other, they tend to focus on certain practices which aren't necessarily intrinsic to the POV style and that kind of POV can be written without them. Technically, you could even write a multi-POV in the first person, but that can be confusing depending on the number of characters involved and the voice has to be very distinct (even if the chapters are labeled with that POV character)