Because playing as an archer is fucking boring. Give them melee abilities. And nerf the damage what they make on plated guys. With the distance damage model what was made by a guy from a nativ mod. He make a damageing system. Where ranged lose projectile energy while the Arrow or bolt lose the energy while traveling over long distances. And then you could give them melee abilities as well. And game would be balanced again. because to shoot a bow you need to be a stronk person. 
... When everybody can take a insane amount of wpf already. like in the following build. For example. 18/27 with like level 33 what gives you 9 weaponmaster and 6 powerdraw. What let you shoot your bow unbelievable accurate already. And you can draw your bow insanly fast already. so this buff is totally nonsense again. People simply don´t know how to make they re builds effective. And also Archer becomes really boring after some time...
Melee abilities? We already have them, 0 slot weapons are quite OP IMO. Just you need to make good build.
DMG against plated? that's why almost all ppl are using bodkins.
You need to be stronk? 18 or 21 str are more than quite big part of c-rpg population have.
18/27 on lvl 33 and even turtle can easily catch you, cav will rape your ass. Other sige why an archer shooting whole his life and sacreficed all his skills to archery shouldn't be accurate? Any weapon becomes "part of you" while using it long enought.
Archer bpring after some time? Make retirement, respec or switch to other char...
