Any Advantage to Having a Dual Point Distributor for Daily Driver?

Short story, 1971, a guy I worked with bought a new Dodge Dart 318.In 1987 it quit running in the work parking lot. I asked "When did you change the points last ?'' He answered "Never, they told me it had a new electronic ignition for 71". The car had 90K+ miles on it.I opened the gap enough for it to run again till he got new points.