I often help my friend who is also my accountant with his systems. He has to use various Intuit Pro Tax products. These are straight out of 90s boxed software l

I often help my friend who is also my accountant with his systems. He has to use various Intuit Pro Tax products. These are straight out of 90s boxed software land. Installing and using them in this day and age of polished software is like taking a step back into a timemachine especially when networking is involved. He pays thousands of dollars /year for these products and the technical issues with data sharing, networking, printing are just incredible. Another thing that is jarring is the regard that Scott Cook, the founder of Intuit is held in the valley. He was apparently a mentor and coach to many founders Jobs? Page/Brin? and others. But the disconnect with his sterling image as a coach and leader and the general dark patterns/crappiness of Intuit products is something that is interesting.