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And IIRC, the lead contributed to long term reliability of the engine too, something you definitely want to have in a single-engine plane. You don't want to switch fuels and end up with Cessna's falling out of the sky.
That's a myth.
Only sort of; the engines were designed so that the additives were important to combustion performance. Of course, the solution isn’t to keep using leaded fuel, but to rebuild the engine to be more reliable AND not depend on the additives.
Running an old engine with modern fuel will definitely cause it to fail.
It's only important for increasing octane. You would have to reduce the performance of the engine on order to prevent knocking.