I feel like the spear discussions are ignoring hunters. "Just use a falx," I'm sorry, do I get bonus damage from flinging my sword at things? No?
And before you say "but bows," bows are just not as good as spears, not at all. I need to use twice as many arrows as I do spears, which makes perfect sense, but I need to run around with like 4 spears on my bar to do any level of hunting on the regular. I feel like the fact I'm taking up 4+ slots should make them more damaging by a lot than bows, which you only need one bow and a stack of arrows.
Devs are also *really* sleeping on wool. The "Wool And More" mod is pretty night perfect. That would help take up some of the slack on the loss of flax without it being easy at all (your sheep/goat have to be like gen 3 to start shearing and the wool needs to be processed.)