I give up: I replaced the HP printer with an Epson printer. Epson printer setup was flawless and the printer was up-and-running in 5 minutes. I can say I don't ENVY the current users of this or any other SOHO HP printer. Not very surprising: no one in my family has an interest in taking over this HP printer.
Question for HP remains: why I should create and use an HP cloud account to print or scan something on my printer that's sitting right next to me?
But, it doesn't matter: HP gave me the final push to stop using HP printers