Stay with a carburetor or go EFI

It has nothing to do with fear.

OEM EFI is about emissions and junk like that. It damn sure isn’t about maximum power.

If a carb can’t be made drivable that’s on the tuner.

If you are willing to spend the timing learning EFI, why not spend the time to learn carburation?

If your goal is to be able to turn the key and have it idle than EFI is what you want. Any half assed tuned carb will start and run with a turn of the key, and it takes about 1 minute for the car to sit and idle on its own. If that.
I would add it's customer driven as well. Same reason they give you a spark plug that goes 150k miles now. It's not that it's better than a copper core plug, because it's not! But so many don't want to bother even to lift a hood, so changing plugs at 50k was a bother. It's also the reason they want "automatic pilot". Too many don't even have enough interest in driving their car. Just snap chat, text, play a game, or even sleep while the car drives itself.