Reasons why I hate 4th ed

The design team. As near as I can tell, it's made up of a bunch of arrogant pricks. Take this for example, an excerpt from today's preview article on archons (a new sub-set of elementals) (underline added for emphasis):

"But the Elemental Chaos is vast, and fire and ice are only two of the many forms it takes. Now that we’ve (thankfully!) separated the word “elemental” in the D&D sense from the classical Greek elements of earth, fire, air, and water, there’s plenty of room for archons of your own design."

Yes, "thankfully!" Yeah, because, I know I'm thankful that you're taking a shit on the classics. As I said, arrogant prick. Also, a quick look at editions previous shows us a wide variety of "quasi" and "para" elementals to fulfill any little hole you might need. Now, if they wanted to impress me, that would have been a chlorine elemental...