@noom170 Read the response by @sanjitrnair
This was a error with the online version of turbo tax appearing for some specific tax situations that I unfortunately fell into. Looks like this doesn't happen to everyone but based on specific tax situations based on your answers on the onlien site. Trying to find out what caused this only resulted in numerous hours of frustration and unsuccessful attempts. Have to call out that the customer service associates were very patient though and tried to help though we did not get to a resolution
Finally thanks to @GabiU , I was told that the PC/Mac installable version of Turbotax solves this and shared the Mac downloadable through my intuit account along with instructions on how to import all the details you meticulously filled in to the online tool (without having to do it from scratch on the local installed version). Though I was skeptical, I was able to export from web, import everything easily into my local turbotax software on Mac and it actually did solve the issue and I was able to e-file. Thought of sharing in case anyone runs into this issue in future
