hmmmm
That must be why the automotive industry ditched points in the early eighties?
A magneto may well be reliable but is it durable given you have to strip it every five hundred hours? Only the intellectually deficient or lazy would argue that we as engineers of both the mathematical and physical disciplines shouldn't refine and improve our engineering. Simplicity sometimes cannot provide reliability or durability but refinement certainly can. Refinement also lowers labour costs. Compare the complexity of the human being as a machine as say compared to your ECU and consider their relative reliability.
Good engineering is reliable and **** engineering isn't bottom line