Ballast, Blaster II, ohms, current, friggin volts!

Yes, let me rephrase regarding distributors:
I very much understand that a nice MP or accurately phased tight dist, a good gear and tight timing chain can all be fairly efficient when set up with proper mecnanical and vacuum curves (but a fairly daunting task to alot of people) considering the cost of that vs a mega controller and edis / ecu installation. But alot of people spend big bucks on a distributor, coil and ecu system, and at that point it seems to make more sense to crank trigger / wasted spark / map-able ecu.