"Which is insane, they should have the ability to control all transactions. I can’t enter all my transactions into qbo, and I have to do summaries, but even with summary reports I can’t get the system to show everything all the time!"

It really is. I haven't been able to get more than 3 weeks worth of transactions in one report in ages. I have to export the data, text-to-columns the dates and currency, unmerge the cells, and stitch 15 reports together to get the year to date data.

It hit the point where I'm basically running a secondary database to supplement the QBO data.

You can get some of the data more easily through Spreadsheet Sync, but not all of it.

I'll repeat what I said months ago in this thread, these changes were not accountant driven. These were either driven by non-trained accountants (which has always been Intuit's target audience with QuickBooks) or developer driven change for the sake of being able to say they updated something.