Kudos- you absolutely nailed it.  Anyone with an ounce of perception should see Intuit's ultimate goal is to herd all Desktop Pro users  into the QBO corral like cattle, whether they like it or not.  Perhaps they have suddenly decided to compete with God in hopes their poor, misled minions will see the light and realize it's Intuit, not the customer, who knows what is best for we, the poor misled who aren't quite bright enough to make the right decisions on our own.  Matters not many of us are CPAs.  Intuit makes little if any effort to hide their total lack of  concern that many of us poor fools will refuse to go to QBO for the simple reason that, how can it put this in technical parlance(?), it is hot garbage.  Forget the untold millions we have paid them over the years, as well as the new customers many of us have brought them.   Customer loyalty?  I have to take a break after saying that so I can laugh myself into a coma......