I followed John U's mantra in part. We bedded the pads on both vans when we got them. As well, whenever I replaced pads, I thoroughly sanded off any accumulation of adherent brake pad material from the rotors using 100-grit sandpaper. Then, I would drive out after midnight, find a secluded stretch of highway, and bed the new pads.

We've enjoyed about 365,000 miles of shudder-free driving between our two Odysseys (210,000 on our 2002 EX, and about 155,000 on our 2003 EX, which we bought used with about 50,000 miles on the odo.)

Many, many years ago, somebody on this forum pointed me to these two StopTech papers written by their engineering and tech staff:

The ‘Warped’Brake Disc &Other Myths of the Braking System
https://centricparts.com/getmedia/bd69395a-b65c-481d-93f7-b26b1bd0638d/Centric_and_APC_Technical_Whitepaper_B1-Warped-Brake-Disc-8-2018_1.pdf

Pad and Rotor Bed-In Theory, Definitions and Procedures
https://centricparts.com/getmedia/b62c7705-ab5f-4a05-97a8-4a7390feedd1/Centric_and_APC_Technical_Whitepaper_C2-Bed-In-Theory-8-2018_1.pdf