This appears to be Vanguard's latest attempt to move the last of us luddites off the traditional mutual fund web platform and onto the new brokerage platform. My guess is they would explain it by claiming that it costs money to support TT imports for the mutual fund 1099s and they don't want to spend the money because they shouldn't have to because we should move to the brokerage platform. And it's true that being cheapskates is supposed to be one of their core values.... but I still find it incredibly annoying. And I am not convinced that they haven't lost track of their core values lately anyway.
I still maintain that they will need to pry the mutual fund platform out of my cold dead fingers but forcing me to enter everything manually is painful and I don't appreciate it.
