If you wanna turn your weapon into someone - use swing attacks
Groupfights dude, if there's a bunch of people around you then most often you simply cannot sideswing into the person you want to attack + to sideswing into someone not in front of you means that you have to swing in quite a wide arc making the attack fairly obvious and easy to block. And since the turning is nerfed it's not fast enough to overhead/stab which means that it's much harder to fight groups, which imho is a negative thing. Granted, it's also harder to hit someone you're ganging, but when you're ganging and pushing the advantage you usually don't have to run around and turn like a maniac in the same way.
I guess the 1h don't suffer so much from this because their leftswing is fast enough to be used for this type of fighting, but on the other hand the 1h stab is probably the one who got hit the hardest since it needs the most delicate turning.
So more picks and scims it is then?