Sneaking while swimming/flying would lock your current direction of travel, while still allowing you to look around freely.
Edit: Probably not worth editing this post now as it's most likely lost in the depth of the website, but found an older post (which I completely overlooked before) that says pretty much the exact same thing: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360019079892-Looking-with-Elytra
For example, while flying over land, you may spot another player and want to try and shoot him with your bow. Locking your direction would allow you to not lose height (except by loss of momentum) or go off course by being forced to fly towards the player, while also being able to get a good shot at them.
This would help in terms of cinematics (flyovers for example), and just getting a nice view in general.
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