Why would you need to waste time and effort creating a method to encrypt a seed when you already have plenty of perfectly adequate (and proven) encryption systems for encrypting "plain text"?

You know that's a really silly question. Let me rephrase it slightly and maybe you can help answer it:
Why would you need to waste time and effort creating a method to encrypt a
bitcoin private key when you already have plenty of perfectly adequate (and proven) encryption systems for encrypting "plain text"?
