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People give their passwords to Mint, and I totally don't understand that.

The banks in the US won't cooperate, according to everyone I've heard stories from who are trying to break into, or have broken into, this space.

That’s still not a good reason to give your bank credentials and allow them to be stored in plain text. At that point if it’s your only option you just don’t do it.

Quicken at least claims to store the credentials locally and encrypted. How well it does this I don't know of course, but I consider it infinitely better than any online service, which is why I still use it despite the fact that it manages the impressive feat of being so slow that a web-based service would probably be faster in terms of UI performance.