AccountEdge is serious accounting software for small to medium-sized businesses. They use a subscription model too, but about half the cost of Quickbooks and you keep your own data on your own machine, Mac or PC.
Review:
https://www.merchantmaverick.com/reviews/accountedge-review/
Now as you are complaining about Quickbooks having too many features.. this won’t solve that problem, the software is very complete and has been around just as long as Quickbooks. But, it is rock solid and not assembled out of bailing wire like Quickbooks. (from Quicken long time passing)
The sad fact is that most accounting software now is only available as cloud-based apps leaving your data in some data center halfway around the world.
Thank you for that link. Appreciated.