A dose reality here.
Some folks are upset about Intuit jettisoning the produc, like they owe us anything. So am I. But Intuit is a publically traded business, and if they aren't having a suitable return on their investment AS THEY DEEM (not some folks claiming they know what the business is internally), they're perfectly (and in fact, a good business decision) in their rights to sell and move on. They're not a charity.
And it's not just a question of lowering the price until they get a buyer. At a certain point, better to take the tax write off if they can't find a profitable buyer. So don't count on a purchase. HP, IBM,DELL, etc. ALL got out of the PC business (or reorganized radically) because of the desktop's drop as the home computing platform. I have 4 kids in 20s and 30s, and wife, NONE of them use a PC anymore.
And for years I've been hearing people ask questions about "how long can I wait before I HAVE to buy new version to do OSU", like they're gaming the system. I've always maintained that if we all bought the product every year, maybe this wouldn't have happened. (And our friend in Canada kept saying how stupid we were to do this...sigh.)
As they say,"Just sayin'".