Honestly, in a world of more automation, we need to be able to have things happen automatically without popups happening and blocking everything. If a computer is accessing QB via an API call, why would it possibly be able to login via a popup??? It's so silly I thought surely I was missing something, but no, Intuit is probably just pushing hard to get people to move to cloud rather than desktop. The issue is that cloud doesn't really work and has far less functionality than desktop.  Some of our clients are moving to Microsoft BC and we are putting our development in that direction because QB is just not listening. They are not going to listen, it's obvious that they want it the way it is. So we are moving on to something that we can actually be productive with in an automated world.