Mostly what this is telling me is that I don't actually recall _ACC_ well enough to comment intelligently, at least as to your points 2 and 3. I mostly remember butter bugs and lots of domestic mayhem, and Miles _in extremis_ in entertaining ways (which is par for the course), but also in relatively new ways.

My "Gah, smash" reflex isn't triggered in the same way as yours by _Cryoburn_, although I share the view that all the things that Miles could/should be dealing with in your enumerated list would be ever so much more interesting than the "solve other planet's problems" that we actually end up with.