they’re incredibly counter-intuitive for anyone who doesn’t intimately understand cryptography and security, and they make it way too easy for people to make a mistake

it’s a long discussion but there are other ways to handle key management and recovery that don’t require people to manually handle backups

Yes, what are the alternatives?

For me it depends how the seeds are created. These wallets should allow you to use 3rd party programs to randomize your own seeds.