> So I ask again, will the IRS make a painless tool? If the answer is yes, but Intuit is lobbying them not to, then I understand your point.

Exactly this, yes. It's well documented all over the place, but here are a couple of examples:

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2013/04/02/it...

In any case, thanks to the folks in this thread suggesting alternatives. I was going to switch to Credit Karma last year, but literally the day after I created an account I woke up to the news that Intuit had bought them.

Edit: I see down-thread someone says they had to spin out the tax-filing portion of the business?