Better for people with English keyboards though. And I prefer the aesthetics.

Point taken. I forgot that brackets are not shifted on my keyboard.

They do require worse acrobatics than a shift key on a German keyboard, though - one of the Alt keys is special and needed to trigger them, if memory serves.

Well, that's another argument for everyone to use an English layout for coding, I suppose.

Is it better for English keyboards because () are shifted and [] are not ?