It holds your hand a lot less than taxcut or turbotax though. Its basically a very thin shim on top of the IRS forms and instructions. Other than the electronic filing and a couple pretty basic hints, once you have some history and are vaguely aware of tax credits for various things, its barely easier than the IRS instructions in the old paper tax forms.
I tend to use taxcut, which is a bit closer to turbotax, but frankly its messed up things that I only found by reading a paper copy of the return before filing and noticing numbers that didn't make sense (doubling values by adding imported values with hand entered ones, that kind of thing). I had problems like that with turbotax in the 1990's but haven't used it since the bootloader fiasco.
I tend to use taxcut, which is a bit closer to turbotax, but frankly its messed up things that I only found by reading a paper copy of the return before filing and noticing numbers that didn't make sense (doubling values by adding imported values with hand entered ones, that kind of thing). I had problems like that with turbotax in the 1990's but haven't used it since the bootloader fiasco.