I'd say on the contrary it's the American system that's needlessly complicating things here.
There is no need for deeds to _exist at all_ in 2019.
The government ends up as the authoritative decision maker on who owns real property, so rather than pretend these pieces of paper matter, just go to the horse's mouth and use government registration.
How does the US still have this quaint document based system like it's still the 19th century? Same reason ordinary working Americans have to fill out a bunch of paperwork for the IRS to tell them what they already know - lobbying. In this case from companies that make their money navigating the complicated property system or insuring against problems with it and know if it was simpler they'd be out of a job.
A fancy modern country might deploy a GIS to handle all of this down to the millimetre. For somewhere as old as the USA that's likely to cause more trouble than it saves, but a system like that in England, where registration is done but the question of who own this crack in the shared driveway is not resolved by that registration‡ would simplify the vast majority of property deals in the US.
The core trick is to make the registration in the government system de facto the truth - definitely beating any documents no matter who swears they're genuine, this takes some alignment work up front, but you only do it once and most conflicts discovered during alignment will be about land nobody is actually using, scrub land or abandoned mines that six people have identical deeds for as part of a decades old scam, that sort of thing - not homes, because a conflict about who owns your home would already have been resolved.
‡ If you start from deeds drawn up in an era when a boundary might be "From the old oak tree to the river" rather than "Here's the co-ordinates accurate to eight decimal places in the NAD83 datum" then the question of whether the fence put up in 1923 is on Alice's land or Bob's or if it's in fact neatly on the boundary and so belongs to them both is a matter that a court will have to settle if Alice and Bob can't manage to agree it amicably.