Or just use CashApp Tax. Your procedure makes it sound like Turbo Tax is the only game in town. Turbo Tax isn’t worth any of the effort you mentioned.
Just quickly looking at CashApp Tax, it appears it is an Android app that likely will want network access to function. If that meets your requirements, good for you. But it doesn't meet mine. I'd also rather use the same software year to year so that information is carried forward, rather than being subject to whichever way the startup winds blow.
Furthermore — it’s your tax records. As soon as the government receives them they enter the permanent records of surveillance valley.
> As soon as the government receives them they enter the permanent records of surveillance valley.
Uh no, US tax records are not public data, nor available for the surveillance industry to buy AFAIK. It's unavoidable that the government gets them, but the fewer parties that get mine the better.