My gripe with nudge is that I don't understand why it was added to begin with. Very few people play exclusively as a 1h no shield player, and that is a choice that they made. This game isn't rapier dueling in Renaissance Italy, it's medieval warfare. To give them something that only benefits them is baffling from a game design point of view, and it inevitably has lead to people complaining about it.
To add something exclusively for one class, very likely the least played class (except maybe the nerfed into the ground HAs), just makes it seem like someone lobbied hard enough for it simply for the benefit of their own playstyle. What's even more funny is that people that seriously played 1h no shield were actually quite good at it without the nudge.
It also gives ranged classes far more utility because now they can melee extremely effectively, while also maintaining their ranged capabilities