You are not buying the software anymore, you are renting it for a short time. If you need to file an amended return next year you will have to rent it again!
Software support is poorly trained and not knowledgeable. When you point out a problem in software you finally get someone that agrees and says they will kick it up to the next level. Try again with different people same result and you never hear back. Over 6 hours on the phone wasting my time. Never get answers.
There is a strange bug - once you import a previous year's return you cannot undo the operation later in the interview process without starting a fresh return and re-importing with a different return. Ended up losing a few hours of work that way when I realized that last year's return had a mistake and I wanted to correct that before using in this year's return.
I downloaded broker info with ~1000 stock trades. Program requires verification of every transaction, each triggering a "Program Not Responding" warning. Net result was at least 1/2 minute each for ~9 hours total of scrolling/clicking/waiting ... and all were correct from the broker. This was running on a workstation with Xeon processor and 16GB memory. Terrible software coding. Product support claimed there was no way to do this any faster. Have used program for 20+ years - never again
Can't submit electronic. The software doesn't auto calculate return every single step as turbo tax. Browsing to certain area is not as easy as turbo tax. Browsing to form1, form2 is super confused.