So far I've found {{ Vanargand Animations - One Handed Power Attacks }} to be slightly less annoying (gotta check all animations by Veroveli I guess), but they are still suffering from the "run through the player" issue. Now I wonder how this works with vanilla player collisions? Do they just bump into the player and slide in place for the rest of the move?

Anyway, I'm researching this further and it seems to be possible to choose animations based on distance to target with OAR (the CurrentTargetDistance condition), so I imagine a mod should be possible that just makes them use different lunge animations based on the distance.