In general I agree with your position. But for cases like this, these kinds of statements have been so common from H&R Block and Intuit, and the topic has been

In general I agree with your position. But for cases like this, these kinds of statements have been so common from H&R Block and Intuit, and the topic has been wending its way through the system for a couple of decades that if you were a journalist short of time it would be fine to quote some other public statement from either of them. The actual article is about something more interesting: that they are piloting it with states that have state income taxes as well, and that they will be rolling it out in phases (the right thing to do). The response to Intuit isn't about the meat of the topic.