There’s only so much a checkbook needs to do after all. From the articles written on the sale of Quicken to HIG Capital, it only contributed ~$50M to Intuit’s revenue of $4B so it was hard to justify investment.
The new owners of Quicken have their work cut out for them, reversing the trend of lack of investment in this 30+ year old software. Just like everybody else, I recently updated (or ransomed?) to QD2017 from my prior QD2014.