Replying to Sqrlzrus, but this really applies to the great many who have expressed the same thought. It's NOT that Intuit doesn't get it. The get it perfectly well. It just doesn't comport with their game plan which is to force all users of QB Desktop to online subscriptation products so they are assured of getting annual revenue. They get it all right. They just don't want you using their product every year without paying over and over. The thought that you might still be using QB Desktop 2019 version means that they didn't get to bill you for the years, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Yikes! How terrible. For them, NOT for you. You were simply being smart simce generally accepted accounting standards don't change form year to year, why not continue using the very same program. 

Look, this is a strategy facing many software providers. Microsoft used to be able to get users to buy the latest version of Office every year because they introduced new features that users couldn't resist having. Until finally they ran out of new features that users couldn't do without. Then began the move to get users to move to "the cloud" where everything would be better. And, for some, there was enough benefit to do so, particularly large enterprises where groups often work on a common document, or project. For the little one person office that makes no sense. Intuit is in the same boat. 

But, even Microsoft has realized that they can't force everyone into their cloud so they continue the stand alone product line, though without the "features" of the cloud universe. Intuit should recognize this as well but apparently their management doesn't think this applies to them. Maybe so, maybe not. Time will tell. 

Like a couple of others, I should be able to be done with QB Desktop by the end of this year, so I don't really give a s..t what Intuit thinks.