Update: In case anyone is following this, unfortunately I haven't made any progress on this. Still can't find anything that'll resolve this issue. Have tried different compatability settings as well. Found some "fixes" for Ubuntu, but couldn't apply them to Kali. Currently trying to install Parrot as a diffierent option, but everything still appears slow, it's taking a long time to unpack the image, but I'll wait to see if it's still slow once it's installed, but as it's also Debian I'm not expecting it to be any different.
Again, if anyone can provide any guidance or help on this it'll be greatly appreciated. I'm not able to get any support from VMWare so I'm kind of relying on the community for this one. Again I'd prefer to stick with VMWare, but I'm going to have to swap to Virtual Box by the look of things.