1. These conduits are drastically different from normal elementary conduits, so they don't quite fit that description.
2. Sparks are very common in Life, though sometimes they don't have a lot of clearance. This already classifies many conduits as having a spark output.
3. These collection of conduits can allow Heisenburps for a greater variety of spaceships to be built (not a strong reason, but still a reason).
4. These can allow faster user-interfaces because the user can just add a few cells in order to do something on the interface. A dot spark input would be most preferable for this reason.
Here are three examples:
Domino-to-G
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x = 22, y = 32, rule = LifeHistory
.D$2DB$DBDB$.4B$2.4B$3.4B$4.4B$5.4B$6.4B$2A5.4B6.2A$.A5.4B6.A$.A.AB.
2B2C3B.BA.A$2.2AB.7B.B2A$4.3BA7B$4.2BABA6B$4.2BABA6B$.B.4BA6B$2AB.10B
$2A13B$.2B.12B$4.11B$6.9B$8.9B3.D$9.4B2A4BDBD$10.2BA2BA3BDBD$12.BABA
4BD$13.BA4B$14.4B$14.2B$15.AB$14.A.A$14.2A!
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x = 26, y = 17, rule = LifeHistory
4.A$4.3A$7.A5.2C$6.2A4.B.B$6.5B3C$8.8B.B$.2A4.16B$.A.A2.5B2A11BD$3.A
2.5B2A9B3DB$3.3A16BDBD$.2A2.BA.14BD$A2.4A2B.2B3.2B2.2B$2A.A.4B$3.A.2A
$3.A.A$2.2A.A.A$6.2A!
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x = 26, y = 25, rule = LifeHistory
8.2D$7.2D2B$8.BD2B$9.4B$10.4B$11.4B$12.4B$13.4B$7.2A5.4B6.2A$4.A3.A5.
4B6.A$3.A.A2.A.AB.B2C4B.BA.A$3.A.A3.2AB.7B.B2A$.3A.2A4.5BA5B$A4.B5.4B
ABA4B$.3AB2AB.6BABA4B$3.A.2AB.7BA3B$7.12B$6.13B$2A2.2A13B$A2.A.A12B$.
A.A.B.2B.2B2.6B$2A.2A13.2A$3.A14.A$3.A.A13.3A$4.2A15.A!
The last reason is what most motivated me to start this thread. Finally, we can make something in Life that we can interact with like a normal computer.
Quantize away!