Minecraft wiki entry for Best_biomes_for_homes, associated text: Not much surface-level or near-surface-level stone.
It is rather hard to find wood here, and while the badlands can have oak trees, relying on the chances of spawning there is not efficient as it only generates in wooded badlands plateau variants.
Lack of passive mobs and therefore meats and their other products cannot be obtained.
In Bedrock Edition, eroded badlands can spawn cows, chickens, pigs and sheep, so it's better to live in these badlands variants.