Don't waste your time reading all of these messages.  The customers are all saying we want to get rid of this requirement and QB responds to us with platitudes that don't address the issue.  Clearly they have no intention at this time to allow us to remove the option.  I suggest we all, repeatedly go to the help feature and submit multiple instances of the "send feedback" and FLOOD them with complaints.  It's obvious to me that the QB team on this forum have no power to make any changes and there currently is no permanent solution to the problem.  Let them know it needs to go and maybe we can force an update to remove this rediculous feature.