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I don't think the fact that it's too powerful for a human body is a valid point. I think the fact that it would negate the need for one, however, is- an omnipresent entity can exist everywhere simultaneously in an incorporeal way, and, as such, exists independently of a body when it does not need to interact with lesser entities. If someone got omnipresence alone, they'd probably maintain a body out of the simple fact that they couldn't do anything except observe without it, but when they have omnipotence to just craft new bodies as they see fit, there is no need to maintain the previous one. But just saying your body can't hold those powers seems kind of like dodging it. It seems more to me that the very soul or essence of a person is what contains the power, and would probably be permanently bonded to it upon reception.
Omnipresence may or may not drive you insane, depending on whether or not you're also given the mental faculties to process all the information you're given. If you aren't, then the experience would probably just be an overwhelming blur of sensation. If you can understand it all, however, then you'd be exposed to some pretty ghastly things and the experience of eternity.
The worst one, really, would be passive omniscience (active omniscience means you have to actively gather what you want to know, but you can know absolutely anything, including everything. Passive omniscience just means you already know absolutely everything). If there is any fact in this world that has the chance of driving you insane, you would know it. The sheer size of the universe, the meaning of life/lack thereof, the implications of being eternal...
Another thing about omniscience. When you experience something, anything, everything about the experience is just information. It forms a memory. Omniscience would allow you to know what any experience you wanted would be like with such detail that you'd essentially be doing it. A 3O being may simply drop dead out of the fact that they can experience anything they want without altering reality to do it. Or, maybe there's some perfect path/cycle that a 3O being would become aware of, and would start exercising immediately, perfectly as the last 3O being had done- essentially, taking all the same actions as a previous 3O being, being in all the same places, knowing all the same knowledge... Maybe becoming 3O just makes you exactly the same as the previous 3O, which, being intangible, makes your existences so similar as to be the same. You merge with the previous one.
It could be why no one ever becomes 3O in a fictional universe- they DO, but they alter the past for a sort of "cover story" and then just simply go along with the same world plan as any other 3O being.
And you don't need an example of an ordinary human gaining the powers and retaining a human form in order to consider it as a possibility.
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