I believe the reason these threads always come up is the same reason people complain about 1h stabs, quite annoying and clearly broken in some manor(not completely, it just needs some tweaks), all 2h and pole classes have the same fighting style where they just engage and then backpedal, so you have no choice but to chase them and inevitably be kicked 3-4 times during your fight essentially ending your life with the skill-less kick, be honest with yourself kicking is on par with bump slashing, or hitting people who are knocked down.
They need to make the kicks time shorter(fix it somehow, idk) so that you stop running into kicks when they are already over, i hate when the leg is obviously retracting and you run into it and get stunned. <--this is my complaint