FYI, VMware Workstation 17.5, with its new hardware version 21 and refreshed NVMe support, exhibits the same unwanted behaviour.

On Fedora 39 (beta) with "Linux fedora-gnome 6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct 6 19:57:21 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux", the commands

cd /
rg 1 | wc -l

 yield plenty of timeouts - and with that comes massive delays. Run this after a fresh boot with very cold caches.

[ 182.238025] nvme nvme0: I/O 192 QID 5 timeout, completion polled
[ 222.686266] nvme nvme0: I/O 224 QID 6 timeout, completion polled
[ 252.894103] nvme nvme0: I/O 0 QID 3 timeout, completion polled
[ 283.614594] nvme nvme0: I/O 1 QID 3 timeout, completion polled
[ 283.614607] nvme nvme0: I/O 192 QID 8 timeout, completion polled
[ 283.614626] nvme nvme0: I/O 128 QID 11 timeout, completion polled
[ 314.589824] nvme nvme0: I/O 227 QID 6 timeout, completion polled
[ 344.990885] nvme nvme0: I/O 128 QID 1 timeout, completion polled
[ 345.024297] nvme nvme0: I/O 193 QID 8 timeout, completion polled
[ 376.286125] nvme nvme0: I/O 129 QID 11 timeout, completion polled
[ 432.094158] nvme nvme0: I/O 92 QID 4 timeout, completion polled
[ 432.094170] nvme nvme0: I/O 0 QID 6 timeout, completion polled
[ 462.302211] nvme nvme0: I/O 248 QID 3 timeout, completion polled
[ 462.302237] nvme nvme0: I/O 32 QID 6 timeout, completion polled
[ 462.302242] nvme nvme0: I/O 96 QID 7 timeout, completion polled
[ 462.302247] nvme nvme0: I/O 130 QID 11 timeout, completion polled
[ 493.021506] nvme nvme0: I/O 225 QID 3 timeout, completion polled
[ 526.301435] nvme nvme0: I/O 32 QID 5 timeout, completion polled