The problem with the balance is as it stands now, polearm left is a horrendous animation and polearm right is only slightly passable. You still lose a few range on the right swing, and it starts way too far back, but it's not really an issue... The left swing however is pretty much a piece of shit.
Certainly if they're going to remove polestun but not fix the animations, they should at least change two handed sword thrusts to half-sworded animation EXCEPT possibly on the katana/heavy bastard/long. Although that would result in their thrust being FAR longer than the german/danish etc, which might just be... strange?
Is there anyway you could give a cooldown on polestun so that it either can't happen to the same person, or from the same source for about say.. 10 seconds?