So easy to follow up a swing with a free stab and breaking the attack/block pattern now. An enemy literally can't re-attack if you do it right.
As it always was with a poleaxe, or any similar polearm if you pulled it right. I've been spending yesterday afternoon having fun with a bec barely doing anything but right swing -> stab followups not even looking at the enemy. I did get killed a few times by people like Radament with a BSS through
long distance stabs which simply weren't possible before, because I don't have integrated that I have to block those yet. So yes it's a 1h stab buff but there's really nothing gamebreaking. If I read Tydeus correctly, facehug stabs are actually slightly harder to do.