Go look through the Pictures forum here and see what you think. Saying that hand quilting is good and machine quilting is bad would be like saying oil painting is good and watercolor is bad. Weird.
My quilts so far have used very simple machine quilting -- outline and stitch in the ditch. I've been practicing some hand quilting because I have a project that doesn't lend itself to the type of machine quilting I can do (no FMQ foot, never done FMQ, etc.). I have another project going that might even be some of each -- machine for the border and hand for the center panel. Wonder what your quilt police would say about that! LOL LOL LOL