Thicker = better?

There is this general acceptance of thicker-gauged strings being 'better' to the ears. Thusfar, I don't find such strings appealing in solid body electrics, the Ibanez Talman acoustic guitar of mine you see above was once equipped with a set of .011s when I first bought it. I didn't even keep those for long, in fact, I replaced them with a set of .010s when I reached home that day. However, I recently bought a a pack of .011s for it with the intention of rekindling the slightest of interest in embracing that gauge set but NO... they were still repulsive to me, so back to a pack of .010s... It's all a matter of preference, yes? Majority of my guitars are in standard tuning so a set of .009s in them manifest the best tension for my playing quirks, it's the most beneficial for a light picker like me.