It seems QBO cannot leave well enough alone. A whole new type pf payee, Contractors has been added and it would apear on the surface that your 1099 vendors must be now moved to or duplicated as Contractor (we all know duplicate names are a no-no so append a period to end of one of the names).  But the Contractor tab does pull over only Vendors designated as 1099 https://community.intuit.com/articles/1637708

Of course this will be more confusing to not only small businesses that only have Employees and Vendors (no sub-contractors) that they have no direct dashboard access anymore to their Employees as well as businesses who will think that contractors are employees or worse, will mislabel employees as contractors

I guess what bothyers me most, not that one has to collect info to begin with (contractor email) to offer them the opportunity to enter their own info but that one does not get a printed hard copy W-9 to keep in your records.