Axe Stab Buff?

Everyone who's looked into Heroes knows that axes are basically just worse swords. There are multiple reasons for this, but a key one is the slash/stab differential. I've seen slightly varying numbers, but it essentially boils down to swords doing 1/1 damage on a slash/stab, while axes do something like 1.2/.7, which means on balance axes will do less damage with all other stats being equal. If we could buff the stab damage to be .8, or whatever the equivalent counter to the buffed slash damage is, axes would still not be the meta but at least it would be less of a clear-cut "wrong" choice.

I know this has been a known and discussed feature in the community for a while so I'm sure there's a fair reason it hasn't been changed up to this point, but I searched through the rejected and impossible suggestion subforums and didn't see anything relating to this so I thought I'd post one. Worst case scenario, this post will hopefully be easy to find for anybody wondering about this issue and the related debate in the future.