Replacing my points distributor

having been only in the hobby in a limited basis from around 2000 to about 2010, and now back in pretty well, I have to admit to being taken back some with all this HEI stuff.
I realize all the problems with sorry Chinese junk. maybe you can not buy decent points. maybe all mopar ECU's you buy are crap? maybe the Mopar distributors are now inferior? maybe all the GM modules are U S made and wonderful?
I understand some people not wanting to have to occasionally deal with a ballast resistor. BUT is the supposed extra spark of this HEI needed for the average Mopar guys car? I guess i'm just old fashioned and not with it!!??? LOL