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.

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.

I’m one of those people, never looking back