Just to be sure: do you realize this is based on the ruleset of a pen & paper roleplaying game and therefore the primary focus is to be as faithful to those rules as possible?
Nobody's gonna make a video game that requires sitting down and reading the PHB a prerequisite to playing it. Try to look at it from the perspective of somebody who has never played D&D before. For them I imagine the game's mechanics and terminology are pretty impenetrable.
Personally I was shocked there's no hover text describing what different weapon properties do. I don't know how they're prioritizing ease-of-use, but maybe it will have more urgency given how wildly (and unexpectedly) popular the EA has been.
