If it's too hard to fix you don't understand it. It's okay to not understand something, but saying it's objectively worse is not true. You can continue to hide in your comfort zone of the past and carry your extra ballast resistor, cap, rotor, ignition module, spark plugs, screwdriver, carb spray in the trunk pretending that means its more reliable all you want. Throwing parts at it when it inevitably isn't running right. Doesn't matter to me. Just doesn't make it true. I don't understand the second part because I don't swing that way and never tried it but its also not relevant. Thought we were talking about cars.