FBO plate over advancing

When I first began as a mechanic in high school auto shop in 1980, front wheel drive was coming into vogue and anything with EFI on it was a total POS, since it was still in its finite stages. I've worked in just about every dealership in Macon and some others in outlying areas in my career as a mechanic and I must say I still hate EFI. It's never made sense to me that a fuel pump failure on EFI means dead in the water "wherever" you are when a fuel pump failure on a carburetor might mean if you're easy on the gas, you might can make it home. I've never seen it as an upgrade and I never will.

I haven't driven an old car with an efi system installed. But I'm not interested either. The engine is the same regardless of carb or efi bolted in place. So any gain in performance or response with efi would have to be minimal.