People really love the idea of a quick, easy fix; a single solveable problem that explains a vast swath of issues.
Avoiding poison is a "quick, easy fix" to the consequences of that poison (or the opposite in the case of vitamin deficiency). Whether there's any reason to believe seed oils are harmful, I have no clue, but the idea that we could be en-masse consuming something harmful has dozens of precedents.
Seed oil theorists will tell you they cause... a lot more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation
> The theme of the misinformation is that seed oils are the root cause of most diseases of affluence, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver spots.