I was once told that when Driffield was a Meteor AFTS (or OCU?) the loss rate was 1 per week and there was a standing funeral party. They say there are still the marks in the cliffs around Flamborough Head where a 3 ship impacted trying to get back to Driffield under the weather.
I can confirm the pretty horrendous leg forces needed when assymetric at low speeds, not a task to be undertaken lightly.
There was also the problem of "The Phantom Dive". In the T7, and maybe in the single seaters, you never selected airbrakes out with the gear and flap down otherwise the airflow over the back end effectively ceased and the thing just went down. If I remember correctly, this problem was made worse by the close proximity of the airbrake and the flap levers, both in the same place and both acting in the same way.