Pathfinder 2 Blog: Critical Success and Failure

[Morty]

Seems unlikely. The details still unknown to us would have to be significantly different from those revealed for martial combat mechanics in P2 to not have much of the same shortcomings as those in P1.

They did mention a Fighter feat that lets you spend an extra action to frighten an enemy with an attack. So there's some elements of control and debuffs in there. But keeping them entirely out of the weapons' baseline traits isn't a good start.

In their defence, it's possible they thought such options were too strong for such basic traits. And the D&D combat model really doesn't give them too much wriggle room.