I wanted to re-up this topic in case developments since it was last discussed alter people's opinions.
Splitting a 24 word mnemonic into two parts seems like a good way of performing at least one backup.
And the seems to have garnered moderate approval here in this thread.
Yet in this video, Andreas positively hates the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nSibpfHYE
I'm not sure if that's because he's against having 16/24 in one place and whether his concerns would be assuaged in a 12/24 set-up.