No just the opposite. The CDI is the shojavascript:%20void(0)rt duration, high energy start. The inductive sparkis the long duration trail.
This is why MSD has multiple sparks below 3000 rpm. The short duration CDI spark would not burn up themixture fully at low rpms.

As far as plug gap, you can run it wide... but you end up with a much shorter spark duration doing so. The wider the gap, the more you stress the coil/ wires/ plugs.
The Ign1 coils are capable of burning holes through some spark plug insulators. Much better to take it easy on the hard parts and turn the energy into duration.