I went and read that before posting, but I guess my interpretation of it and the resulting conversation was more to the "discouraged meaning please don't do it" end than yours.
Either way, not a big deal. If some amount of homebrew is ok, I'll seriously consider taking/ retraining feats for BoF maneuvers in a level or two.
On that note, do Pilot classes count as martial adepts for the purposes of martial study? If so, does the "don't expend maneuvers, pay energy for them instead" aspect of pilot maneuvers apply to maneuvers learned that way?