Actually, this is not the worst trade-off in the world, even on the roleplaying sense. I can always think of humans as those generic city guards wielding polearms. And gameplay-wise pikes are one of the best two-handed weapons in the game, Larian gave them the best weapon actions for Martial Classes.
I gues it depends on your class ...
Martial classes as far as i know usualy allready have "Martial Weapons Proficiency" in general ... Fighter do ... Barbarian do ... Paladin do ... i believe Ranger do ... Rogue dont, but they need Finese to apply Sneak Attack, so nope ... Monk dont, but they cant use two-handed weapons in order to use their features, so the only weapon that is there for them is spear, and they as far as i know allready have that, so also nope ... And casters dont benefit much from meele weapons in general. :-/ So ... maybe Cleric? Yes, Clerics probably could find that usefull, since their weapon proficiencies are joke. But besides that ... i dunno.
And then there is Light Armor ... I mean, this is just my personal feeling, but i find this to be the most useless proficiency in game ... Light Armors dont easily even reach power of Mage Armor spell ... and its quite possible (even probable) that all interesting Caster Artefacts will be clothes, rather than Light Armours, since only Warlock can wear that.
Nope, still dont like it.
Still would thousant times rather have +1 to all 3 Ability Scores i need ... and others that i dont, but they are handy.
I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings. Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are!
