It's absolutely inexcusable on VMware's part. The fact that this build shipped with the USB/SD card bug is bad enough, but to drag feet for months with no official fix leaves me speechless. Mounting evidence that VMware is no longer the go to product when it comes to virtualization platforms. There are many other options out there.
For now, I've downgraded to 6.x and will stay there until the bitter end. Hopefully VMware will piss off enough people that version 7 is actually something you can comfortably deploy in a production environment at some point.
Regards,
Adam Tyler