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Lots of fun sounding ideas there. Only one I dislike is the 14 month with 26 days, since "letters of alphabet" is very arbitrary and biased to English. I personally like the simpler 13 month 28 days design, since that also equates to the lunar cycles used since ancient times.
But lunar cycles are 29.5 days, not 28.
It's mainly for utility; in the case of English, it just fits. Any centralization towards one alternative isn't intentional.
There's actually an extra bit of commentary where different alphabets would be seen as fitting the solar cycles of different planets; for example Venus, with a seven-month system, would be associated with the Cyrillic alphabet in the same way. Likewise with Mercury (with a 4-month system) and the Hebrew alphabet, Mars (with a 14-month system) and the Chechen alphabet, and Ceres (with a 58-month system) and the Norwegian alphabet.