Note I said "at a similar latitude". A satellite at a given inclination will trace out a ground path oscillating back and forth between D degrees north and D d

Note I said "at a similar latitude". A satellite at a given inclination will trace out a ground path oscillating back and forth between D degrees north and D degrees south, where D is its inclination, with latitude varying sinusoidally with time. So it will spend different amounts of time at different latitudes, hence choice of inclination depending heavily on observation/communication target. However, for any given latitude it will spend an equal amount of time at each longitude (east-west location) as the Earth rotates under its orbit. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_track https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_track So for example, any satellite that images Georgia (the US state) or Taiwan will spend an approximately equal amount of time over Lebanon and Israel.