But the standard SH256 brainwallets are very safe, if the password is safe.
But, the problem is that you can't know how safe it is and most of the times, it isn't same like a seed phrase. When you pick a password, your money are vulnerable to the entropy that you, as a human, think it's unpredictable enough.
So why not just let your computer pick a random number, instead of you, which is a proven fact you can't, represented in twelve words? I mean, you can't really find much passwords which are both so strong and short as a twelve-words phrase.