In my area, stick-built homes use 16" OC spacing; a given wall is built flat on the deck and raised to position. The mechanism of how to start at the end is very inconsistent; a height change is usually built as two separate walls and the 2x4 studs nailed to each other. It is slightly easier for drywalling to create the spacing such that a sheet of 8 or 12’ drywall will center on a stud without cutting, but since one crew does the rough framing and a different one does the drywall, it’s seldom a very important consideration. It’s completely fine to start at one end and mark the bottom and top plates every 16 inches. Also, depending on how the corners join, an extra stud may be put in at each end of the first wall so there is a stud against which to nail the dr;ywall (this puts 3 studs supporting each corner). Every corner needs a stud on each wall plane against which drywall can be nailed; I am not explaining this well but if you visualize you’ll see why the first wall is different from the second wall. Without a stud a few inches from the end of that first wall, there won’t be anything against which to nail the drywall after you put up the second wall.
Overall the most important consideration is that any full spaces are 16" OC, in my opinion. The rest of the smaller spaces are all over the place. This makes insulating much easier, since any full 16" OC cavities are filled with a standard width insulation. For drywalling it becomes impossible to maintain the studs in exactly the right place so that standard 8 or 12 foot sheets don’t need cutting, and besides, drywall is easy as pie to cut.