I've been saying this for several months, as well.  I checking on pricing for the latest version of QB Desktop, even THAT is now a subscription!  I gather from that, that each version of QBDT will have support dropped each year and you have to "resubscribe" for the new version.  Wouldn't surprise me if Intuit introduces a "kill switch" that would literally turn off QB after so many days, and force the user to buy a new subscription just to continue to use it.  I know that I, like many others, are searching for an alternative.  I am a =very= small user and am down to only 1 employee and haven't used the P/R service for decades, just doing all P/R checks manually.  If Quicken had manual P/R capability, I'd dump QB in a heartbeat.