In the summary area, you can resolve, inactivate or remove diagnosis' at the top. This may solve some of the problems above.
It might be nice to have a click box where the dx is made acute and will resolve automatically unless it is made chronic or renewed.
There are a host of issues with AC, but there have also been a host of fixes. The letter writer is a perfect example(better.) Unfortunately, so is the spell checker (not better.) If you look at the list of fixes. It used to be easier to look up changes between upgrades, now it appears you have to log into the client portal on the main site (the .net/ac site) and look for changes. There are hundreds of them. from just 6.6 and 6.5. Most are in the background but still important. I'm not defending them, just trying to explain how I see it. There are still changes I would very much like to see as well.
PCP versus Specialist, Doc versus Doc, AC versus Users; each has their own ranking for a ranking of the importance of the urgency in the need for repair. You can't please everyone. Sometimes you can't please anyone. It's no different than in practice.
Then there is the need to meet MU standards. Think of it what you will, it is necessary to bring in new clients and that's where the money is. We are not gouged for support as are many EHR's.