Intuit is smart.  Months have passed.  If this was hurting their bottom line it would have been fixed promptly.  Accidental or not this is surely helping them get users to shift over to QB Online.  I don't condone that behavior but ultimately they have the market cornered.  Losing an insignificant fraction of fed up users to other products was probably factored in long ago.  Disappointing.  The fix I posted two months ago is still holding strong for me... so far.