Boy do I ever agree with you.  Intuit has done everything possible over the years to make an annoyance out of themselves.  I talk clients out of using their products everyday and if I could find another software to handle my client records I would do so in a heartbeats.  I have been using and hating this software for more than 20 years.  They are invasive and annoying and only do half of this crap in order to be able to control their users and market to them at higher and higher annual fees.  There are no laws or statutes that require this control and I dare them to share the laws as they are written.