I think they're gearing up to spoil all of their "legacy" products and force you into their money-grab subscription model. Once they're out of support they'll be riddled with errors & problems that won't get fixed.

I just installed the latest R15 patch for QB 2020, and that's when the eventviewer gets hammered with Nudge errors. And this is after a complete Windows update on a brand new Windows 10 or 11 install. I uninstalled R15 and installed R4, I only saw about 4 errors when it runs. But I still had the update in que, so after a few runs it forced me to go back to the buggy R15.

I use a 2021 with a May 2022 update with about 5 errors after I run it. Now I'm scared to install any automatic updates in case I get hammered with any future bad ones.