I don't get it. Finally 1h has actually all 4 attack directions viable and they actually feel proper and consistent with the animations and everywhere you look some 2h hero is complaining about not being the Primadonna of the ballet any more.
Get the fuck over it and start to downblock... I play 1h w/o at the moment and I am sorry but I don't have issues to downblock once in a while when facing another 1h. If anything happened to the game play with these changes, then that you actually have to downblock now and then when fighting a 1h. Instead of just watching out for the left swing spam... What horror!
Normally I just shrug when there are patches to crpg cuz most of the time they don't actually change anything. Since I love playing 1h w/o, these changes are actually something that makes me happy, and it would be just sad if some 2h elitist pricks ruin this nice change for everyone else.
Tweak the stab damage on some swords? Maybe but it's not really necessary. I play with 5PS and I still need at least 4 stabs for someone in MW medium armor. Makes it probably 3 stabs for 6PS and 2 stabs for 7PS. Doesn't sound overpowered to me considering the, still, way better damage output on any 2h sword.
Just leave it like it is now for 2 - 3 weeks and the amount of 1h will go down again, 2h get used to down block once in a while and nobody will talk about this anymore. Please devs, just stand your ground on this one!