Timing retard

Does it really matter on the street? I mean a stout 360 can smoke the tires to 50/60 mph anyway, no matter what the timing as long as it's close. And a lot of guys put too much timing in their combos anyway.
Now if you pulled timing early on a 273, I could see that being a problem.
I've had two Orange boxes, and neither had pulled timing by 5000.
I've heard it said that racers might pull timing up there to increase their trap speed.I don't know if there is any truth to that, but I do know that MSD sells timing retard boxes.lol.
If the orange box does retard the timing after say 5500/6000, would that be a bad thing? And you would be getting that feature included, no extra charge.
IDK, just rambling.......