Whether or not you like the tone its one thing. In the same way one may prefer nickel played steel over pure nickel strings( I prefer pure nickel) the fact is that they have very different tones.
What sounds good can be debated, but what changes tone more dramatically really can't be. Not everything is sujective, some things are what they araree. . A single coil is sharper and more trebley than a hunbucker. You may like a hunbucker more, but the fact that they have destinctive tones can't be argued without ignoring facts. A lot of people want to say that what sounds "good" is all a matter of personal opinion; I don't buy that in all cases. I think you'd be hard press to find someone who likes a dull sounding guitar over one with lively resonance and clean sustain. The same way you'd have a difficult time finding someone who likes the distortion you get when you overload an input on a recording device and it clips over a natural tube distortion, or hell even an overdrive pedal for that matter.
Not EVERYTHING happens for a reason, sometimes $@!& just happens, and not everything is subjective.