While some of us are allergic to brushes, all of me is downright hypersensitive to them, and hence avoid them like the plague .. dastardly things that they are!!
I'm so hopeless at using them, I even get splashes of exposure adjustment on my clothing and even keyboard!!
I just prefer to keep the edit steps simple.
If you've used colour control point editing, ala CaptureNX or via the Adobe plugin from Color Efex, you'll truly understand the meaning of the term simple editing