The ONLY reason I moved from 6.7 to 7.0 was to look into Kubernetes (Tanzu), which we discovered is a complete SaaS service with many moving parts. VMware wanted way too much money to license it so we dropped it.
Otherwise I would have stayed with 6.7, 7.x has been somewhat plagued with issues as you're likely aware. Once you figure out how to make it work with your hardware, it has been pretty stable (as long as you never upgrade to the latest version when VMware releases them)
They absolutely butchered ESXi 7.03 so bad they had to pull 2 versions from downloads. I have been working with VMware products since 2003 and have learned the hard way, never go latest release in prod. Especially if you have 3rd party solutions (like Veeam). Everything has to support the versions you are on. Let other people be the guinea pigs / beta testers for VMware