Hi,
I hear you and am agreeing with you on most points. It doesn't make me like subscriptions more though... with most types of subscriptions you are being forced to upgrade even if that upgrade takes things away that you liked. It's a model that IMO benefits the supplier slightly more than the customer.
A bit off topic, but Catalina was a very expensive upgrade for my product (Vimalin), both in time as well as cost. However I did not ending up deciding to make it a "pay for" upgrade.
It's not always that black & white with costs versus benefits. There are more parts for that particular decision and I think VMware also does understand that quite well. Catalina must have been a painful transition for them, yet they did not pass that cost on to their customers.
Of course you do prefer to have your customers keep on using a supported version of your product.
For VMware Fusion that version is 11.x and I do hope that most people in here trying to get older versions to work do not see that as a long term solution as the likeliness of them going to end up getting into trouble because of that decision increases over time.
Anyways.. 'nuff said on this from my part 
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Wil
