I play almost exclusively 1h / shield
Blunt and Piercing dmg are fine, the problem is cut dmg on most of the swords are too low. Some swords are fine tho but most of them are underpowered. Not a single sword behave the same way you can look at stats all day long and on paper sword have good stats but when you start using the weapon you notice that some sword you cannot use the right swing cause its bugged, overhead swing is not reliable and left swing is predictable vs almost anyone that know how to play the game.
Axe have very high cut dmg compare to swords , have same or higher speed and destroy shields, so i dont see why some swords shouldnt get a slight cut damage buff.