With your lighter schedule, perhaps you can call your senator's office and express how the May 17th date is a big joke, which would be appropriate on April 1st.  Given the time for the program to update for unemployment, and then given the time for the program to update for the May 17th date, there really wasn't an additional month to complete things.  On top of that, the estimated payment date is ridiculous.

It sounds great to have a high powered attorney as IRS Commissioner, but I would rather have someone who has actually prepared returns and can understand what starting three weeks late means to preparers, what a major tax law change in the middle of filing season means to preparers, and how making the filing date May 17th is totally negated for anyone who has an estimate still due on April 15th.