A friend used TurboTax for years but this year he plans to use the free return system on the IRS website. IIRC California (our home state) has a similar system.
I’m trying to decide that very decision myself. Because my return is simple, I have been considering just using the free sites for state and Federal. The reason I haven’t so far, is because Turbotax has all of my records, so I can go back to a previous year and print off, etc. The jury’s still out for this year, but you bring up a good point. “Why pay when you can have it free?” I guess I have a couple weeks to figure out if it’s worth the extra 30 bucks to be able to print them. That’s almost dinner and a movie (albeit a cheap dinner, haha).