"I feel this is an issue that PS needs to be aware of"

Submit it to the Ideas Exchange:

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/proseries-tax-idea-exchange/idb-p/603

"and the only way to make the programmers aware is to tell them"

Then it gets voted on, and given a status.

"Maybe I am over hopeful that PS actually reads these comments."

Not these, so much. Ideas Exchange, sure.

Otherwise, you are complaining to peer users, who have been watching this condition since the year started. There are a bajillion such topics on this forum.