Hmm...I'll give it 48 hours to see if the rumor that this has been escalated is true. When I requested a partial TurboTax refund (for the exact amount of my tax refund I'd lose without the Schedule B), I mentioned this needed to be escalated because it's likely to impact a large proportion of their customers. If others call requesting a refund and saying the same thing, perhaps Intuit actually will respond.
I appreciate that the IRS released these new forms extremely late, but when H&R Block and other Intuit competitors have successfully incorporated the Schedule B, it's reasonable to expect Intuit would as well.
