As Jim's first link pointed out, Intuit says that Basic does not have support for NOLs.  Maybe they changed that and just haven't updated that page, but I doubt it.

It seems like they mistakenly added it to Basic in 2024 because of the new form.

Rather than feeling cheated, you should feel that you received a 'bonus' in 2024 by getting something the software was not supposed to have.

As far as the "headache", if I remember correctly, you were always supposed to attach a computation of NOLs to the return.  The only 'new' thing is that rather than manually creating the computation, it is now on an official form (Form 172).  But I think attaching the computation has always been required.