We use VMWare Workstation for our various development activities and have done so for quite a while. The Win 11 TPM requirement is my key concern, and since we use Player, I don't even see a way to turn on encryption of the virtual disks. We can move to Pro, but have been avoiding the extra cost if it wasn't needed.
I hope that the issue with drive encryption is resolved, but I suspect as the requirement for TPM becomes more apparent, VMWare will remove drive encryption as a prerequisite for enabling vTPM.
