I'm not aware of any issues but most around me running electronic or some aftermarket system. As for your worry, last year on my way home from a show, pulled out to pass slow driver, got right beside him and big backfire and engine dies, heart failure right there. manged to get back in behind him then off road. Turned out my electronic box died. S**t happens, if your that worried about going back to points system because your buddy had 3 condensers die on him, the same can happen with what ever your running now.
Was he able to compare batch numbers, maybe the company had a whole batch that were faulty. I remember in the early 80's having an issue with one spark plug line, 8 faulty, short lived sets in a row, turned out to be a bad batch slipped through, got same plugs from a different batch and no problem, again, S**t happens