But the better you are, the better you can aim, increasing your ability to hit critical/weak points in your enemy's armor, doing more harm.
exactly the same thing is about hand weapons
And if you want more damage:
Use a crossbow, but then prepare for a decrease in firing frequency.
So why do you ever mention it? Maybe i was talking about crossbows from the very start? But the fact is i was talking about ranged weapons in general or rather about its best model, if it explain you better.
Of course hand weapons are always more powerfull than ranged. But it isn't good to make the ranged weapons weaker, because missiles can't be stuck in body. It also isn't good to increase damage of ranged weapons, to compensate them in this way. We should have "arrows and other missiles stuck in body" feature