I haven't been able to find a recent 2h balance thread, so I'll use the opportunity to write my suggestion regarding 2h balance: since the replacement of stab for polearms' has never been generally accepted, how about replacing the other attacks with polearms'? (shorter reach for left swing and overhead)
Since the most common complaint are the animations, I think that would be a proper change. As a pure 2h for most of my playtime, I agree that 2h animations are extremely easy and "exploitable".