More Quicken Essentials uselessness

Today I found encountered another factor that helps makes Quicken Essentials useless. You cannot have an investment account without tying it to a brokerage for automatic download. In fact, you cannot enter transactions yourself, like the older Quicken versions. So, there is no way to track investments without storing the account number and password on my computer. I don't understand why they have changed Quicken into a tool which is strictly "tell me what my banks says", rather than a tool which lets you track your version of reality.