My suggestion is to accept the status quo of American tax filing, while in the meantime continue to bother your representatives about it.

If your taxes are complicated enough that you need to pay, just pay.

This will come across as a product plug, but FreeTaxUSA is a lot better than TurboTax and provides 100% of the featureset for free for federal taxes, and charges $16 for state filing. The UI and interface is also way better than the hostile design of TurboTax.

It is technically possible to use Free Fillable Forms but it realy isn't worth saving $16. You will easily burn multiple hours of extra time compared to something like FreeTaxUSA.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...