I never used them :shrug:
This is actually the typical reaction to crossbows, throwing weapons and spears. No one used them in Morrowind and everyone complained they were useless or not fun to use and then when they were removed, people hold them in such high esteem as if they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.
But as I said earlier, crossbows were confirmed to be not in and spears are confirmed to not be in. However, throwing weapons we have no idea about and when Todd said "There won't be spears in the tradition sense" he might have meant throwing spears like in NV.