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Probably because most stabby blows are going to come at an upward or horizontal angle, less from the top down at an angle that could penetrate. Holding a pointy weapon above your head and driving it down at close range exposes your torso. You could use a halberd or billhook for a top-down strike, but that's still not super likely to be at the right angle to slide between the pieces. Longer weapons like that were used more for poking than swinging like an axe anyway.

We need to get Lindybeige in here

I am going to guess that segmentation provides flexibility, and to down stacking prevents from lateral blows, which most sword blows would look like. It would not be great against anything top-down, but most blows would not likely b elike that (top down stabbing comes to my mind, but that would be rarer i guess, much more rare at start or moddle of fight, because at the end, the winner might like to stab to give a finishing blow)

No clue, I'm afraid! Best I can do is proffer the wiki page for this general style of armor.

I mean... They said it was Polish