Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you need to enter shares?  Don't you just enter the total Basis and the total Sales Price for each transaction?

Just figured that the 2019 form 8949 you still had to enter the shares.  So, is it your opinion that they need not place shares? or is there no place to enter the shares?

It may have been in the software in 2019, but it is not on the actual 8949.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f8949--2019.pdf

I don't see any need to enter the number of shares.  What would be the purpose?