BTW, just 12 worlds is enough for derivation. The benefit is that you can remember your seed phrase quite easily.

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How do you define “enough”? If anyone where to use BIP-85 for their whole key setup i would definitely recommend getting 24 words

The used derived entropy is roughly 128 bit. So there may be an advantage for finding seed words, but not for the derived keys. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/48258/the-length-of-the-bitcoins-private-keys

This is true for every single derived key, yes. However if your parent key is the source for many different key sets (as it is the case with bip-85) the strength of the parent is most important

Count of entropy bits

I would argue that the key that deterministicly derives all your other keys can not have “enough” entropy