I really do agree with you!!!
Expecially when you say that: "...Assegai which i feel the tail slides sidewards to reorient the ship inside the curve..."
I was an Assegai user in the beginning, but that style of cornering was so slow... Maybe that's because I couldn't drive an assegai, but surely with AG, goteki or harimau I was WAY much faster!!!
So I became an AG driver.... until they released that thing.... the AG-fury.