Hello MB6661, thanks for posting on this thread, and sharing your thoughts with us, acknowledge desktop to online are very different and work differently and have different feature to each other, our developers are always continuing to improve our QuickBooks online packages for our customers. 

The discussion was made from higher up that the only way to migrate with date across would be with MMB, it is our of our control. We are sorry to hear that you feel that you have been royally shafted this is not what we want our customers to feel.  Thanks for this feedback we will pass it onto the developers.