Mr. Moderator, your statement, "It's crucial to ensure compliance with IRS regulations, and while the current limitation in QuickBooks presents a challenge..."

Your "current limitation" does not "present a huge challenge".  It precisely prohibits your clients from following the law.  Your cavalier, "and here's some unrelated QB article..." is infuriating.  It is categorically dismissive of Intuit's responsibility to follow the law.  It demonstrates a disturbing disinterest in OWNING YOUR MISTAKE AND FIXING IT.

Please tell us what steps Intuit has taken to notify the IRS that many of your Law Abiding Customers are unable to follow the e-file law since Intuit has UNILATERALLY disabled that option.  And kindly send me a copy I can enclose it with my paper filing.

Kindly also tell us where to send reimbursement requests.  The IRS considers failure to e-file as failure to file at all.  Penalties are the same as non-filing.  Surely you don't expect your customers to pay the IRS penalties.  We already paid for your software, expecting it to meet IRS Regulations.