If you don't want a game that veers into hack and slash at least on occasion (or absolutely want to play in an official D&D campaign world and can't improvise to save your life), D&D in all editions has never been a very good alternative. That's one of the perpetually baffling things about the endless threads on the official forum. "4E/3E/2E is roll-playing, screw you, I'm going back to 3E/2E/1E which makes every player into Kenneth Branagh!" As if those were the options.