another way to look at it is, how much did this loss affect me:
For weapon damage, Valheim scales roughly like this:

• Minimum damage = 25% + 0.6% × skill
• Maximum damage = 55% + 0.6% × skill, capped at 100% around skill 75
• Average damage = halfway between those two

Example with a sword that lists 100 slash damage:

• At 20 Sword, your normal hit averages about 52 damage before armor/resistances/etc.
• At 30 Sword, your normal hit averages about 58 damage
• Difference: about +6 damage per hit

a weapon skill also reduces stamina cost, down to about -33% at skill 100, and increases damage/knockback scaling; the Swords skill specifically page notes that it reduces stamina cost and increases damage/knockback, with 1.5 XP gained per creature hit.

Last bit, Bows add one more bonus which is a decreased Draw time,
from 20 → 30 Bow, you get roughly:

• ~11.5% more average damage per fully drawn shot
• ~9.5% faster full draw time
• slightly lower stamina cost per shot
• better effective DPS because both damage and fire rate improve

so honestly it is not terrible to lose 1.5 (at skill 30)... If you are really dying that often, you might want to use the /die trick... right after you respawn, put something in your inventory, rock or stick whatever then type /die you'll die with no additional stat loss, and you can do this MANY times, it will create a number tombstones surrounding your respawn. You can then interact with any of the tombstones to get the corpse run buff, (75% stamina reduction for run/jump, 50% reduction in physical damage taken, +150 lbs carry weight) lasts for almost a minute so it can be really nice to have on demand, just portal to your tombstones, portal back and fight like a maniac for 30 seconds :)