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It's about the tangential forces in the flange. With alternating lead/trail, every spoke is adjacent to one pulling in the opposite direction, so the stresses (circumferential component) largely cancel out, leaving just the radial component.
Anyway, it's your funeral, but we haven't arrived at the common lacings by accident.