One of the talents in the 1-handed tree speeds up dual wield attacks. It has 2 ranks at 20% and 35% I believe. Did you take that into account? Combined with elemental fury you can attack so fast that most things die within a second or two. I found dual wield to be extremely powerful.
Good point.
The talent trees for one-handed and two-handed appear like mirror images... in both axes cause bleeding... in both a running power attack...
The major difference between the one-handed and two-handed perk trees is the dual wielding branch of the one-handed tree, enabling 40% speed increase at skill level 30 and 50% bonus damage to power attacks at level 70.
So, they could become better, I guess, given enough practice and time.
Also, if one plays on easy mode then it doesn't matter what weapon one chooses because all the enemies die anyways.