I think that's what it means. But that all boils down to your DM as well though. I never have a problem with people having overly powerful characters, as long as they roleplay as well.

Bad Game:

Rogue (Charisma based) – I want to find out information about *whatever*.

DM – Okay, make a roll.

Rogue – I roll and get a 17.

DM – You know that *blah blah blah*

Rogue – Okay, now I roll for sleight of hand and get a 12 to steal his money.

DM – You fail.

Rogue – I want to try again. I roll a 24.

DM – You are able to take his coinpurse and it has *amount* in it.

Good Game:

Rogue (Charisma based) – I want to find out information about *whatever*.

DM – Okay, well nearby you see a couple merchants doing business with people, a couple city watchmen chatting it up while randomly pointing and laughing at someone or something. You also see another watchman who seems to be doing his rounds.

Rogue – I want to ask the watchman who's walking around.

DM – Alrighty, make a *whatever* roll.

Rogue – I got a 17.

DM – He looks at you and asks if he can be of any service.

Rogue and DM – Roleplay happens between the PC and NPC. The information is obtained.

Rogue – Okay, now I wanna pick his pockets. I roll and get a 12.

DM – *makes a spot check and passes.* It doesn't work. Make a spot check.

Rogue – Spot? Okay, I get a 7.

DM – Okay.

Rogue – I try again. I roll a 24.

DM – Make a strength check (I think..been awhile).

Rogue – Uhh, okay. I get a 15.

DM – *makes another spot check and passes* You take the guard's coinpurse. *secret roll* You are then hit in the side as the two idle town guards tackle you and say you are under arrest.

Now at that point since the Rogue is Charisma based, he can try to talk his way out of it and confuse them, or even try to plant the coinpurse on their bodies while he is trying to explain his situation and then redirect it as saying one of them did it, or any other kinds of possibilities. If the DM gives more detail, you may be more interested in roleplaying. And if the DM is a good one and all the player cares about is making rolls, then you can always kick them out.

I've played and run it a bit now with my regular group.

As others have mentioned, it's very easy to pick up and go.  Good for young or new players, it's very handy for getting newbies addicted to RPGing.  Of course, Wizards of the Coast (hereafter called wotc or Hasbro) wouldn't make a whole new product without aiming to get market share.

From a GM point of view, it's easy to throw together a quick on the fly game in it.  If you have reasonable creativity and an idea of what kind of "evils" your party will be dealing with, you can pull 90% of the adventure out on the fly.  Wotc seems to be doing this a lot lately, if you are star wars fans take a look at Scum and Villainy for Saga Edition, it does the same thing.  You can pull random missions and 75% of the stuff you need on the fly.

Characters advance quickly.  This is good for people who want to see people get powerful fast.  It could also be argued that this can work against role play in some ways.  The terrifying city guard captain who kicked your collective asses last month before you started the dungeon can now be killed by the wizard… without magic.

Notable drawbacks, the biggest that I have is that you have less the character classes (Wizard, fighter, cleric) and more roles.  You are a Defender.  Okay, you have different thematic style than a different defender, but your powers (minus the cool descriptions and effects) are going to be almost identical.  This (in my opinion) contributes to the "computer game" feel.

Finite Powers at high levels.  This may seem like a good thing, but if you are a 20th level character it's expected that you are able to open a can of whoop-ass.  Then you realize that you have 4 daily powers, 4 encounter and 6 utility.  That means against the creatures that have a LOT more hitpoints than 3.5, you effectively have 4 Powerful attacks, 4 good attacks, and then you are using at-will attacks again.  Since everything is scaling up with the characters that means that you pretty much continually have the 7/20 to 1/20 chance of hitting something at your level that your character usually does (depending on how focused you are in the particular attack).  In short, playing it at high levels is Exactly like playing at low levels… your attacks just have bigger numbers against enemy proportionally bigger numbers.

The biggest headache I have is not that wotc is churning out new books and material, it's the RATE they are doing it at.  Every book has new something that players will want to include, or at least some of them.  They are making what seems like 1 new core book per month.  By the time the system is a year and a half old, they are expected to have the 2nd core books as well as the 2nd of the expansion books like Adventure's Vault.  Add in to that the fact that they are including new feats and abilities in the monthly magazine and it suddenly starts to get overwhelming to try and keep track or even remotely up to date.  On the flip side it also means that by about 2015 they'll have released every book they had for the 3.0/3.5 version… what happens then?