I am a paid user of Workstation and its expense was by far the largest amount paid for software in the last few years.
After about a year of use I cannot say that I am happy with my purchase.
The only reason I use this software is to let me use an Autodesk product in a Windows 7 guest.
Here are my list of observations:
performance is not good: everything is slow
shared folders is even slower, and ultimately fails to retrieve the file I just clicked on with a message the file is no longer found
unity has become unreliable, it just reverts back by itself
sometimes I lose windows 7 taskbar in the guest
a bluetooth mouse kills the guest, makes it totally unusable
the screen flickers dragging it to a different monitor
every update from windows I need to fix credential guard because the guest won't start (you need to fix this Microsoft Gold Partner!)
how many times does one have to install "tools"?
Twice I attempted to post to the forum with real concrete questions, took weeks to get a response from VMware.
I stopped paying for Autodesk updates because there was a never ending stream of paid for new versions, introducing new bugs all the time. At the same time bugs in older versions weren't fixed.
Everytime I get a notice of a new workstation version I am thinking to myself "why don't you fix what you have?"