…which is another way of saying "constant hassle". The thing about points is they never work as well as an electronic system, and they begin deteriorating (wear/burn) the instant you hit the starter after replacing them. Electronic ignition means better combustion (more performance/better driveability/better gas mileage), longer effective spark plug life, and less maintenance. Win/win/win.
Read this (complete with cool old Plymouth ad and Chrysler Corp publicity video).
Also read this and this and this (featuring Gus Wilson and the Model Garage).
Points ignitions work, but they're inferior. That's not misinformation, that's just fact. There is a reason why you almost never see a car stalled on the side of the road any more. There's a reason why service bays have given way to C-stores at gas stations. It's because cars don't need near as much fiddlefutzing under the hood (on schedule and at random) as they used to. Electronic ignition gave things a hard shove in that direction.
