Agreed. I'd give it a try and see if I prefer it, but it's not of huge importance to me, and if it takes longer than 2 seconds, I'd rather the devs not add this to their list of stuff they're working on.
Yeah, surf and cut would have no point since you can just press A which is faster. I could see fly, but like Lust said, you can hotkey the map, so don't see much use there either.