May be simpler quasi but I don't miss nasty/messy oil bath breathers and cartridge type oil filters. carburetors that needed adjustment any time the weather changed or you took a trip where a big change in elevation was involved, resettin the point gap and dwell angle every month or so and then changin 'em out every few months, spark plugs that only lasted 20k miles or so before needin changin, same with the plug wires/cap and rotor, non detergent oils that led to severe internal engine sludging in well under 100k miles, engines that didn typically live much over 100k before needin a rebuild from all the above and most of all today .... I sure wouldn't miss that great 8-15 MPG these things yielded

I'll take computer controlled fuel injection and crank/cam triggered waste-spark high voltage ignitions where most of the components are good for at least 100k miles, spin on oil filters, drop in air filters, higher quality lubricants, the huge increases in power and performance these all add up to give ya with almost no maintenace and with far better fuel economy to boot, the vast improvements in steering/suspension geometries that allow things to take bumps in the road and curves waaay better and brake systems that don't fade to 1/2 or less of their capability if ever needed to be used hard in more than one instance at a time.

I'll take all the new stuff, and not just any day but every day, over the old "simpler" stuff like this old truck had