This is incredibly frustrating.  I check in every so often to see if Intuit has softened it's password-gestapo requirements and once-again, I'm left silently cussing about the arrogance responses shown by the Inuit staff/moderators.

"QuickBooks Desktop requires passwords to protect data files." is not an answer.  It is a deflection of the problem Intuit refuses to acknowledge and patronizes us long-time customers.  As a software engineer myself, there is zero technical reason to make this password requirement mandatory.  Zero.  Requiring it for those that don't store any kind of  financial information like credit cards, SSN's, etc.. makes it even worse.

Enough with the empty assistance and faux-answers.  We deserve better support from Intuit.  Your software is replaceable and why Intuit feels antagonizing customers is the better approach is beyond me.