just as an addendum to this, we should also probably remember that this is in fact a problem that was solved in 1990
realmofchaos80s.blogspot.com/2014/11/chiv...
as someone that spent a few years hitting people with actual swords whilst also being hit by other people with actual swords (and tbh probably a lot more of the latter), my contribution to the latest TTRPG discourse about combat is that everyone should give hitting people with actual swords a go
