Sorry, for the somewhat nasty comment, I see that progress has been made since the original post.
In fact, I was positively surprised that there was a functional update of Quartus Standard in the works.
Nevertheless, after reading the release notes of verison 2019, it does makes a bad impression that we are instructed to periodically check for updates in a release note dating 2019.09.30.
Having problems is understandable, we are all developers after all, keeping your customers on-hold for 3 months (or at least that is what it looks like) is less understandable.