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Players don't actually expect anything from a setting. They expect things from a game. The setting is just one way that you can deliver these things, and it shouldn't distract from your overall goal as a GM: find out what your players expect, and give it to them.

4E? Take a six-year old child and ask him to make up a story to justify anything, up to and including A not being A, and he can pull it off. You can paste your own contrasting flavor on top of anything, including other flavor. 4E bases class powers around an underlying theme. Rogues control...

People are really really good at making up stories. We start doing it even before we can actually talk. People are really really terrible at math involving more numbers than we have fingers. We need to train for it through adolescence and beyond, and even then it's something of a labor. Unless...

Your DM did know that you can only fire off one reaction ability per round, right? The Goblin Hexer doesn't get to shoot all the dodging goblins around the battlefield or redirect every ranged attack or shift every time he's missed. Just the first time after his turn ends.

So here's the important question: WHY does your rogue want to use the longsword? More damage? Already covered. Ancestral weapon? Splash fighter, take some of the fighter sword powers or "big booms" like Brutal Strike. Maybe go Swordmaster at 11. Pick up Quick Draw. Now you can huck around...

Exalted is what happens in 4E after you hit 30th level. This is a game where it's not considered unusual to have a guy who can punch the stupid out of people, or dodge every attack by never having been there in the first place, or make his swords become unto things like chainsaws. You can't...

No, the Ranger is damage with a side of even more damage, which is about all the fighter and rogue were good for in 3E. Aside from the rogue's giant skill repertoire, most of which has been compressed worse than MIT students in a phone booth. Rangers get hide armor, base +3. Fighters get scale...