To vac advance or not to vac advance

I've always thought that the biggest reason that vacuum advance was engineered by developers was to allow an engine to be started easier with the timing in a retarded position. - And that as soon as an engine started it would produce enough vacuum to advance the timing to a 'run' position. Although not essential on all setups, surely some must still benefit from it. I'm not running any vacuum advance setups on any of my vehicles now because I've switched them all over to electronically controlled timing. Even our Roadrunner with a new FAST EZ efi 2.0 with an MSD Digital 6 has the timing controlled by the ECU.