In my experience 'stock' classes are slower, so easier to drive for novices and people without the mad skills, there's alot less wear and tear on equipment, you don't need top line batts to finish a race (now negated by Li-Po) you probably crash less and don't crash as hard so break less stuff.
If you look at it the other way it's only UK off road that has dropped stock classes. Everywhere else in the world (that I know) and UK on road still runs separate 'stock' 'super stock' and 'mod' classes in most electric categories.
Re the timing advance speedos, in any type of controlled racing, when everyone is on the same level, getting a little advantage is a big deal, so even in the brushed days people always opted for the best speedo's and lots of tuning tricks for stock or 27t/19t racing.
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