The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection
(thelemmy.club)
The big advantage is that the 180th meridian ends up in a very unpopulated part of the world. It is Chukotka Oblast and more importantly Fiji. For the current 0meridian style maps, that is two edges being without much population and not cutting too many continents.