Umbrellas give different effects to soft boxes. A soft box, not surprisingly, gives a softer lighting effect. A brolly can still give edges to the lighting. I suspect the kit you mention is supplied with one of each so you can access either lighting effect, depending on what you want to do. Adding another soft box or brolly at a later date is quite cheap, the one of each approach will probably have been taken to keep the starter kit costs down. Which one is "better" depends entirely on the end result you are trying to achieve.
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