Thank God I'm not the only one who feels this way. At worst, I'll let my foot hover over the break pedal, but otherwise I let myself coast along on the freeway if I'm not holding speed on the level. If I gotta come to a stop sooner than I'd bleed off speed, I gently tap the break to slowly stop, never holding the break for long until I'm already at a near stop. Or someone flew in front of me at breakneck speeds and I had to hold the break to slow down enough to not cause an accident rear-ending some chuckle fuck dipshit who thought he could fit his fancy sports car in an ever decreasing space that was already too risky for anyone with a working brain.
I remember getting into arguments with my paternal grandma about it, because she always got mad at me for not holding the break on the freeway when it sloped downwards slightly and I picked up speed. She was always screaming at me that I was going to crash/get a ticket/kill someone/whatever when I'm going to slow down anyway. It's not even like I jumped up 20+ miles over the speed limit, more like 5-10 over and that would bleed off relatively quickly. In fact, she would usually want me UNDER the speed limit.