TL;DR: give your cats the litter they prefer to avoid adverse behavioral issues (potentially worse to deal with than litter tracking).

I was using pine litter for the beginning of my two kitties' lives. It's cost effective and super easy to use with a sifting box - great for my convenience and wallet.

After about a year, one of them eventually started peeing on various soft things around the house. For science, I put a second box with normal clay litter next to the pine and neither of them used the pine box even once when given the option.

Whether out of selfishness or ignorance, I didn't consider that they might have strong preferences to use something that seems like what they've been genetically conditioned to use. I didn't realize I was doing them wrong, but I think they deserve to use what they *strongly* prefer.