I think it wouldn't be "newbie-friendly".
Most think that the drones drop exactly where the lead is (even if in a 45-degree dive and the drones are 500d behind the lead!).
Spacing them out would make precision bombing, like killing hangars or specific objects, completely fruitless.
However. I would not mind that for town killing! Even when you have 3 formations, one left, one middle, one right, you still can't get a good coverage pattern over a town.