Lol yes i'm well aware :P
But hearing the countless and repetitive arguments of players on servers lately, it wouldn't fly.
TDB apparently makes the Warrior useful (Despite personally thinking it's complete bullshit lol). Take that away, and by that i mean what you have suggested, and you get the problem :P
I'm from the era where stepping back and Thrusting a target was the way to win fights on the older files as a Warrior lol.
Nowadays if a target didn't die almost straight away from a spam of TDB (Bare in mind, on the files they would have maxed speed, it would happen in a blink of an eye), people would bitch lol.
And anyway, purposely leaving out skills or changing how they are intended to work, kind of defeats the purpose of bringing an older server into up to date files :P You may as well just launch the 1.4 version
It wouldn't be too difficult to make it work, just requires a bit of effort and thought. With having full access to the source, things could be adjusted without sacrificing how the skills works.