Thanks totfit: that was an excellent explanation of what a dry drunk is. There is a reason why AA uses the expression dry drunk. You have gone on in your post to explain that underlying problems are not removed by alcohol abstinance. You explained that we have to solve those problems to move on in recovery.
Maybe the term "dry drunk" is blunt or annoying, but, it's a real thing as far as I'm concerned, I know I didn't make any progress in recovery until I looked at the "underlying issues".