I'd argue that 4e was closer to 'sword and sorcery' than either 3e or 5e, given how it took away campaign-altering 9th-level spell access, flight abilities as a

I'd argue that 4e was closer to 'sword and sorcery' than either 3e or 5e, given how it took away campaign-altering 9th-level spell access, flight abilities as a default assumption of combat at high level, easy access to whole piles of miscellaneous magic abilities, etc, from PCs.