It's something that I have been aware of for a long time in relation to how lacemaking bobbins are wound, but I think that with sewing machines the problem lies more with the parallel wound reels than with the cross wound spools.
Old machines generally only have upright pins which are best suited to parallel wound reels (Sylko etc) which was by far and away the most common form until a few decades ago.
Nowadays most machines have horizontal pins, though some have a second vertical pin too. Most reels of thread now are cross wound which ideally suits those horizontal pins, but I've never had a problem using cross wound on my
201 with the vertical pin. One twist per revolution isn't a huge amount if the thread is well spun.
My thinking is that cross-wound will come off easier when sewing at speed. If you have a parallel wind reel on a horizontal pin you need to keep the speed down a bit.