I imagine that for many people, the VMware brand has become so tarnished that they wouldn’t use anything from the company, even if it were free.
Yeah considering they got rid of the free version and 10x'd (or more) the price in an attempt to squeeze those who were entrenched in the ecosystem, I can't imagine anyone would willingly sign up to be squeezed in the future.
I’m one of those people, never looking back
Absolutely.
But even when I tried I couldn't download the VMWare Fusion. It's impossible. Their website is a corporate masterpiece of cyclic redirects and stub pages.
How to tell that a product got hamfisted by marketing engineer without saying it got hamfisted by a marketing engineer.