Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
Ok, minor details. Not all that important to the point. We didn't know about it until after the takeover, so we thought it was new. *shrug*Players options stuff was TSR not WotC, it predates the buyout.
So no abilities or spells could pull, push, or slide before 4e?Its not just the measurements its all the powers that involve movement, push, pull slide XYZ squares.
More classes may have gained access to specific abilities that spelled out a character's ability to create movement effects, but the concept is not new and not underrepresented prior. The biggest difference is that the effects are more precisely described. The Keyworded nature of them maybe makes them stand out more now, but if you look back and compare, the abilities effects are similar to what has come before.
And this still has nothing to do with the thread topic.