I hope you are in the minority, cause thats, IMHO, STUPID. Native MP is truly great, and the only way to test your skills.
Well as per your suggestion I went ahead and played Native MP for two hours and I have no clue what you're on about. It's probably because I'm still new in the online world of Warband but it felt
exactly the same, except I'm not stuck playing my one character and can switch around and play a different class whenever I want. It's fun in it's own way, but so few people play it that I'll stick to cRPG if that's alright with you.
As for archers who use polearms pissing you off, well sorry but when I started I saw two handers and shield users dominating so I went and decided to stick with an iron staff. Hopefully no one complains about those being OP, because it's getting hard to keep track of which weapons people whine about being OP because it seems to be everything.
[edit] To clarify, I don't mean Native plays like cRPG does when I say it feels the same. I meant the combat mechanics. In fact fighting in my opinion is easier in Native probably because my skills are optimized unlike here where I just point points wherever I felt like.