I'd prefer to play the bends with my ring finger - not that my pinky isn't up to the job but why make life harder?
..and pentatonics can be very cool with good use of patterns and interesting rhythm use, together with utilising the entire fretboard, not just one box shape, and incorporating bends/slides/vib - they can't not be cool. If you want to get fancier then use modal and pentatonic together
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