Kojiro: Horse archery should be rebuffed, if we could get some realism changes: arrows at angles completely glancing off plate, often mail aswell, horses refusing to trample men, horses taking damage from bumping into stuff/people, horses tiring, and best of all permanent skeleton deformation for the player using horse archery.
Horse archery wasnt nerfed because devs suck at it: its archery, but even less demanding in terms of awareness and strategy, since prior to this patch the only real danger to a HA was crossbows, since a smart guy with high riding can avoid arrows with ease if he doesn't get greedy, and being able to shoot a player on foot AFTER your horse has bumped him down is beyond retarded. It was an easy class played by scumcunts, and your defence of it puts you firmly inside that description.
If you can "of course" as you put it always do so amazingly well in melee then be happy! Im happy for you that you are so amazing at polearms.
The only real surprise to me is that horse crossbows still exist at all since without very specialised crossbows, riding at speed while reloading a crossbow of any meaningful size would be next to impossible without mechanical aids, and having your bolt rest safely in your groove while galloping would demand crossbows of which there is no historical evidence: I am of the opinion that noone did it, since a crossbow that you can knock one handed is not going to have the power and accuracy to make it effective at anything but hunting squirrels from very close range.