Square Robertson screws are my go to. My father had a wood shop and used them for production as they were nearly impossible to strip and the screw holds tight into the slightly tapered driver. So I grew up using them for various projects as we had boxes of them. You can easily one hand a 3-4 inch #10 deck screw. Those crappy Torx things they sell don't compare.

Regular people cannot handle using torx.

Philips is nice because (untrained) people naturally will over-tighten the fuck out of every screw they encounter. Philips cams out and prevents them from going too far overboard. In fact its literal design goal was to make a screw that is hard to over-tighten.

I know if we used torx on some of our products, we'd spent 10000% more time on removing snapped screw bodies.

Agreed. Torx might not be ideal, but it is widespread and (relatively) cheap. And miles better than anything else that is widespread and cheap.

The local hardware stores' own brands offer a wide range of cheap, torx-compatible screws. I think this started not too long ago (but can't say for sure, probably 2019 when the latest torx patent expired?), and they still offer screws with the normal cross shape. Both are of the same, decent quality.

I only buy the torx/star variants, since they're just superior.