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Not a lot, but enough to glean that 4th edition streamlined a lot of stuff and took out some of the crunch. Or at least that was the impression I got from my brief foray into it.
4th Ed was shit.
It was a tactics game that was optimized to deliver a computer game experience on a table with miniatures and terrain.
It was fucking broken out of the gates. I had a party of very experienced players run optimized characters with carefully planned builds. We were routinely taking on encounters that were +3 or +4 above our Challenge Rating.
The DM was just about ready to cheat, because we could steamroll anything that wasn't an engineered TPK; by level 4!
There wasn't any "role playing", there is no other mechanic for getting XP other than killing things and taking their stuff, and the game was a shitty TT War Game dressed up pretty to sell extra accessories.
Pathfinder was launched specifically because 4th Ed was so shit.
4e didn't have the sprawling build-crafting that 3.5e made its name on (and 5e returned to) but it was a miniature tactics game. Agree to disagree, but I don't see how a game where you only control one unit could get much crunchier than 4e.