Palmer has some good vids about overwintering too. Forgot he uses chemicals. Ugh. Still some good advice from his stuff.
I use Langstroth hives. Mostly because that's what I started with then a few years later I had 2 beekeeper friends die so I ended up with their Langstroths too. I really like the idea of log hives though. Especially after reading that book. It's been on my radar for several years but I still have some empty Langstroths to fill. When the perfect log comes along I'll jump on it. Here's a permies link to some log hives.
https://permies.com/t/138758/Details-hollow-log-hive
I started out using so called "natural" chemical treatments (thymol & oxalic acid) because I didn't know any better & that is what is normally taught in bee classes. Then I tried a fogger using mineral oil instead. Seemed like it would be more natural but after seeing that in person it seems just as bad. After gaining a few years
experience my process has changed. I no longer treat with chemicals & rarely open the hives. I split the strongest colonies & overwinter them as nucs. I try not to harvest any honey until after winter dearth which is quite different than most folk's approach. My thinking these days is start with locally adapted bees, put them in as toxic free of an environment as possible, disrupt them as little as possible, grow many bee food plants, & let survival of the fittest run it's course. I still lose some bees but not any more than those who use chemicals. Maybe less. It's certainly cheaper & easier. I think the bees are happier too.
I don't think the style of hive has as much to do with winter survival as how much insulation, honey, & ventilation they have.
The weather has warmed this week so my bees are flying a little. Observed every colony & it appears one might have died. One. From what I've been able to piece together the other locals lost about 50% this year. Some years it's even higher. Except for one exceptionally bad year my results have always been much better than 50% survival. More like 75-90%. One "trick" is to have bees at several locations. If one area gets some sort of infestation the others might not. Good to have backup.
To finally get to the point of natural bees ... this year I'm probably going to get back into some guerilla
gardening. Will be looking for that perfect log & hopefully starting it with a nuc. It mostly depends on the, um, gorillas. Will never harvest that honey or try to capture those swarms. I think that's about as natural as we humans can do it.