Forgive me, but I do expect Quickbooks to make reasonable choices on our behalf as customers and add in solutions as reasonably needed. I come this support page looking for answers, not to develop software, which will not be instigated for at least 2 years.

This is a reasonable needed in your software and this has been a reasonable needed for long time as mentioned in various posts. You might do enough for your Quality Assurance Procedures, but if QuickBooks cannot implement sensible solutions when you see them because you don't have enough feedback forms our enough thumbs up in a forum post. Let's not pretend there is a real chance of a reasonable solution being implemented (it is a rhetorical statement, no need for answer).

Frankly, there is so much that I would improve with this software I would have to give up my full time job and becme a software devoloper.

Marks for Quickbooks online  -  6/10 Could do better (but wont).