Rusty, I'm having a hard time following your argument here. In real life there is no such thing as a "pure build" because you didn't stop learning how to do things at the age of 45 (you were probably dead before that, but that's aside from the point) as most people then who fought in wars probably were capable of throwing a spear, using a sword, and also probably knew how to use a halberd.
Sure, there was no such thing as a "pure thrower" but there was also no such thing as a "pure two hander".
This isn't even a realism discussion, this is a whine thread because a two hander lost some health to a +3 heavy throwing axe, which is inaccurate as hell and often misses the hitbox that it was going for. And yeah, throwers travel in packs because if you go alone you're going to chip out over half your arsenal to take down a guy with a two hander, but if you had a buddy or two you're minimizing the amount of ammo expelled from either person.
"helpless melee players" you could always travel with friends too, instead of going rambo with your 11 ironflesh 11 power strike bullshitery. You also claim that they have an endless supply of recycled axes, which wouldn't happen if they were actually killing things as you can't yet remove a throwing axe from a dead body. And if they actually do miss that much, then doesn't that just prove that they're too inaccurate and should probably just be left alone? And most throwers that actually do damage don't have 9 athletics but run just about as fast as you do.
Two handers can swing their sword at the speed of light while running around with no weight restrictions thanks to how ridiculous the strength attribute is now, they can stab further than a polearm and accelerate faster than a one hander. They don't even need to hit you with the blade, just the hilt is fine and it still delivers 2x as much damage as one throwing axe.
Two handers are both unrealistic and unfun. There's really no excuse for two handers to continue being as ridiculous as they are.
EDIT:
Well, you don't have 12 effective power throw, that's for sure. How much throwing wpf do you have and how much armor do you wear? My guess is that you've max got 8, probably like 6-7
I wear a nomad vest and light everything else with around 113 wpf in throwing, which isn't alot but when you consider that I wear light armor i don't really need much more.