Here, here!  Thank you for sharing your opinion on desktop and your frustration with QB Intuit's push into something we do not want.  I feel the same way, have stated it thru comment and in survey that I will no longer recommend Intuit QB because of this obnoxious, intrusive and interruptive push to online subscription and will move to another accounting software when that time comes.  And I believe Intuit is purposefully NOT listening to our requests and recommendations.  Even more reason to move to something else.