Why? Surely all US banks use open, standardized data formats to export financial statements and to execute transactions in bulk? Or are you thinking of another reason?
US banking is a shitshow which is decades European banking, addressing that would benefit everyone.
> Your investors will hate you
Why? Surely your investors are interested in accurate accounting? Can gnucash not generate some kind of report they need? If so, that should be a trivial fix.
> Some places won't audit without Quickbook
That is an impressive shitshow of a situation.