Ugh, it's not more accurate, hell accurate don't even mean anything here. This is just a projection that makes different compromises making a pseudo sphere fit on to a plane. Projections are tools, different ones have different uses.
It's also more or less equivalent to the Dymaxion map but stretches instead of disconnecting, which is a bit misleading, I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map