Wow, that is completely awful. What if you have to send another 1099 after the fact, like I do, and you have send another 1096 with it? I guess I have manually write it out...the desktop version allows you to do this.
I've been using Quickbooks for almost 20 years and I have slowly seen it devolve into some Walmart type software coded by overseas hacks making minimum wage, and the functionality represents just that.
Remember, its not about the end user, its about what's easiest and cheapest. Code the software so it benefits Intuit, not me.
Garbage....