"Interesting, so you find the stock style ones don't last? I did some more digging around on the napa site and found what seems to be a newer version of it. Think this would be any better?"

The NAPA link isn't working for me, takes to a "enter a zip code-store location search page". There was a design change around late seventies/early eighties to a smaller round metal case version. Only slightly more reliable, when I was wrenching at a dealer back then, replacing these became part of scheduled tune-ups. Cap, rotor, plugs, air filter, and choke controller.