Oh Broadcom has very solid reasons for what they are doing to vmware customers - in many cases they have total vendor lock in & can milk those customers dry for years before they can finally flee.

Sure, by that point vmware would be dead but Broadcom would also be latched into another victim (that it bough for a part of the bloody money) & milking their vendor locked customers.

Rinse and repeat. Or use oil, fire and steel - like you would use on a tick.