Hughes cam?

Right, but that CNC drives cutters and other tooling, right?
You're simply introducing the possibilty of worn machinery & tooling, or operator errors, that isn't the same as the old physical master duplication errors. A program will duplicate(if correct) the lobe perfectly every single time, given top maintainance & operation/practices.
Like the difference between tracing an image with a pantograph over & over, vs running copies with the jet printer, sort-of, lol!