I can assure you that electronic fuel injection was one of the single greatest things to happen to the automobile. Carburetors suck. Period. They are also not nearly as easy to work on as people claim them to be. Also mechanical pumps were simple, sure, but not very efficient. In fact, they did'nt actually pump, they sucked fuel to the jets. The electronic fuel pump allowed for auto makers to actually control fuel flow rates. And since they were now positively displacing fuel from the tank (read: not sucking, but pumping) as well as using computer controlled injectors they could implement fuel return systems to send the unused fuel back to the tank. What a novel idea...
This also made driving a car less of a hassle. Have you ever tried starting a carbureted car on a winter morning? Even if you could get the choke set right and the thing running, it would stumble until the engine temp rose to operating temperature. Or how about on a hot day when the car had just been run for an hour. The fuel used to vaporize in the lines causing a no start symptom called "vapor lock". EFI was God's gift to man.
