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I think a lot of it is people not reading properly to be honest. The changing grip situation for example. People read ", changing your grip from one-handed to two-handed" to mean "I have to spend an action to let go of my weapon" for some bizzare reason. Yes a dev came in and clarified that no you don't have to spend an action to let go with one hand and thus opening a door with a two handed weapon is not a full round action.
What he said is that
If, as in the example upthread, you were releasing your weapon to open a door, releasing your grip should be part of that first Interact action
Which can easily be interpreted (and often is being interpreted) as in some cases it can be done as part of another action. Which for one, doesn't always mean that it can be rolled into whatever other action you're trying to do. And even if it is part of another action, that still means you have to burn a second action to re-grip your weapon, meaning that (for instance) opening a door now takes 2/3 of your turn, and if you're casting a 2-action spell it takes your entire turn just to cast and re-ready. If it's a 3-action spell you literally cannot ready your weapon again. And again, that's *if* you can roll it into any action. If Somatics (for instance) aren't one you can roll it into that means it'll take two turns for a caster with a two-handed weapon to cast a three-action spell, since you have to burn an action to change your grip and it's been said you can't split activities across multiple turns.
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Even then people jumped from moving one handed to two handed taking an action meaning that the opposite is true and start complaining from there. So yeah it might sorta suck a bit to have to take an in optimal turn to open a door carefully (although for lots of doors I imagine kicking it down while holding onto your weapons will work just fine.) Doors aren't just to keep the wind out of the hole you use to enter a building they are also meant to be a physical barrier for things you don't want coming in.
To be totally fair, right before the sentence about one-handed to two-handed it did specifically mention codifying grip-changing in general, it's not *that* big a leap to assume the reverse uses the same rules. As for the doors thing, do note this also applies to more than just doors. Any class that has any abilities that involve using a hand will pretty much be forced to avoid two-handed weapons. Gonna suck for Clerics who's deities favor a two-hander, having to burn an extra action (or maybe even two) every time they want to cast a spell. Or Paladins, who now have to burn an extra action (or two) to use their lay on hands. A melee Alchemist trying to chug a mutagen to get into combat? You're losing an entire round even if they're already in reach as you pull it out, chug it, and then put your hand back on. This really hurts the viability of the two-handed weapon, having to burn an extra action (or two) to do what a one-handed weapon can do without. Or else just leads to the Two-Hand quality becoming king because you can still get that really good damage when you need it, but *aren't* left defenseless if you can't spend the spare action to re-ready your weapon.
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I do agree that it'd be nice if, when a dev gives clarifications in the comments, they also add it into a FAQ footer at the end of the article. That would certainly help avoid the situation I keep seeing where people keep asking the same questions based on the blog even after they've already been answered pages earlier. Not everyone has the free time to dive through 10 page threads every time they have a question.