You cant say spears are sexy...nope.
Esthetic and engineering point of view, they are designed for a certain purpose, which they surely fullfill good....but thats it.
They look cheap, unfancy, purposebuild.
Swords and some polearms just instantly give you the feeling that there is knowhow, knowledge needed to produce them. Besides that, they look powerful.
This only accounts for few polearms though,
Poleaxes (PA, EPA,GPA).
GLA for example is ugly, purposebuild but atleast looks powerful.
Its cut damage is awesome, its lil short with low agi, the stab actually is bad.
It has great pros and great cons.
German Poleaxe is superior in every way, for me atleast.