Emerikol
Adventurer
I'm not really sure if this is a "we know best" attitude". Mearls & crew said the feedback from First playtest, overwhelming disliked the simple fighter. Where as this pleases myself, it might not please you. Play style certainly crosses editions, so support many is their plan. There should be option for the fighter to be more simple/old school.
I enjoyed 1e for many years, played all the early mods, fond memories of sandbox years. Yet now as a 4e fan, too often people seem to blame 4e for everything, I am fairly sure the 4e did not make any older play style wrong, nor is the cause of global warming.
Oh it put a stick of dynamite in my playstyle and blew it to kingdom come. I can't fix 4e without basically just rewriting the game. There are too many things that stomp my game preferences. I could fix 3e easier and maybe 1e/2e even more easily.