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"That's right" she said, stepping in front of her comrades with shield raised. "You ugly brutes keep your distance."

Exactly, and that's where 5e is particularly good: I'm not a real thespian, but I can pretend to be one in D&D. ;)

The WotC (and WotC-derived) versions of D&D are all enjoyable in surprisingly different ways, and in each case I think it's somewhat to do with the different way you "win" each of them. The 3e lineage is about rules mastery. You win it the week before the campaign starts, by planning your next...

Can you like them both? Yes. Should you like them both? No; you should only like the correct one. There are no noncombants in edition wars.

Although the spells aren't arcane/divine, they're still differentiated based on which class grants them. So for example the cleric version of Cure Wounds is considered distinct from the bard version of Cure wounds. The only difference the class of a spell makes is that it determines what...

By and large, players do not like having THEIR stuff sundered; there's an entire thread exploring this in detail: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?48066-DM-To-Sunder-or-not-to-Sunder-(Break-Destroy-Steal-the-PC-s-gear-) I'd suggest being lenient about letting people fix stuff, so...

Seconded. Even if you don't decide to play 4e, that edition's focus on encounter design has quite a bit of advice that might be transferrable to other games. The 4e DMG2 has a section called "Creating Movement" on page 56 full of ideas for making fights tactically interesting.