People blinded by nostalgia.... Aye ladders were fun, except when archers camped roofs and destroyed them delaying the round for 2-3 minutes.
Jumping archers were a pain, made kiting even more effective
1-2d weapons are overnerfed yes.
IMO polearms and 2h are balanced, 1h on the other hand feels underpowered.
Lances oneshotting everything sucked ass, its so fucking boring to play battle and when you stop doing 360's for 5 seconds you get backstabbed and instakilled.
Turnspeed never needed fixing IMO, i never had any problems with it.