The opposite is true also. I just came back from a cruise. The ship ohotographer took pictures of me and my wife while we were eating dinner. Before we finished dessert, he returned with 8x10" photos of the shots. So the shots were so unsharpened, smoothed deliberately, to eliminate any wrinkles on our faces, the results made our skin look like liquid plastic. Plus the white balance was off making our skin look like the pink bottoms of walruses. Of course , my wife didn't notice, so pleased she was with how great her smooth skin was; a common comment I'm sure from all women. Actually, I looked a lot younger too although I tried to not let my ego get in front of my photography experience. So I told the photographer to reduce the shot to 5x7 and asked him to reduce the smoothing. I also asked ho to color balance it but he complained the lighting was off which is strange since the room was dark and he was using a flash. In any case. The next day when he was to have to photo ready, we checked and the skin color was pale on one 5x7 and the other 5x7 was just a reduced copy of the original print. So we took the second. My wife liked how smoothly great she looked in it. Well the 5x7 reduced that effect so we bought it.
Regarding over-sharpening, often many pictures just look too fake when that's done. It also adds to the "digital" soap opera look which film tends to avoid.
