To hide the seams is standard practice, it’s basically a way to assure that you can go with any kind of workflow in your model. You can place the seams in obvious places but then you will have a hard time if suddenly you realize you need to use a texture that wont work well with seams like that. So it’s preferable if your seams, whenever you can, you put them in hidden spots of the mesh. It’s not always possible, so that’s the dance and balance we’re all always struggling with.
