Iirc one handed spear will be in game (could be very wrong here)… so… just take the pointy part off and bingo!
So ...
We would poke with our quarterstaff rather than smash?

That is one thing i always missed a little in D&D...weapon speed. A guy with a dagger should be able to attack way more often that someone swinging a Maul or Greatsword. D&D just compensates it with the additional dmg for Dex (since finess was implemented) but if weapons would be
differentiated by more than dmg dice, it could actually make a difference between weapons that use the same dice.