Manifold Vacuum Advance what am I not getting?

And yet everyone worried about electronics failing in something like an electronic ignition have cars in the driveway that have possibly hundreds of electrical failure points.
Anything produced by a vehicle manufacturer is tested far beyond what aftermarket parts are, and most have years of heritage to rely on.

I'm not worried at all about electronics - it's the unnecessary change to reprogrammable digital systems that I don't follow. Hell, my washer/dryer has a cell phone interface on it. None of that stuff is needed and is nothing but just another failure point, whether it fails electronically, whether it uses buggy programming, or whether the user messes it up and declares it's junk.