Ignoring the fact that you are obviously feeling super-skilled, I think the current input method is quite restrictive:

- it has been reported from various pilots that it does not work 100% of the time, even if input is correct and there's enough time

- it gets in the way of steering your ship when airborne

- even more so, it can go off accidentally when you're just correcting your trajectory

- while it's rather easy to execute cleanly with the Dpad, it's quite messy with the analog, and no, I wont adjust myself to Dpad control now, and switching to Dpad just for the BRs is not an option

- for someone who does not want to use the motion sensor for pitch (for whatever reason, be it because he prefers to play while lying down, and the controller would be in the wrong angle to pitch effectively with motion), it is practically impossible to pitch and BR at the same time

Enough reasons for you? The solution to all abovementioned problems is switching the BR input (optionally) to the airbrake buttons.