I have played dnd for years, back in high school me and my friends got into 3.0
Since then I've played in and dm'd games of 3.5, white wolf, and Adnd2.0. 
 I feel that nearly, if not every change has thus far helped to streamline the game play
without sacrificing the depth of 3.5, and from the looks of it,further and more easily balance characters as the system is less convoluted.

I Absolutely love what there doing with DnD Next and I'm very eager to play a game myself, if anyone is interested in a player or person to rp with syntactically or otherwise in dnd rule set in particular I am quite willing!