I just wanted to point out to everyone who's interacted with this thread, and particularly to the Intuit team that it's now been well over a year since I originally brought this problem to their attention. This is especially frustrating because of how simple of a fix it would be. There's already a variable that records column widths! It just needs to be saved to the local preferences file. It's such a small change that would save everyone at my company so much time.