My team has been running VMWare Workstation pro for years and it’s a solid product. We use it mainly to do app testing/OS testing etc. It’s cheaper than spinning up a VM on the Vsphere.
Something to be aware of, if you runVMware Workstation on Linux. Workstation as of 15.x still uses a Linux kernel library function “gettimeofday()” which was deprecated long ago and finally removed in Kernel 5.x, which is used (for example) in the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release. As a result, if you have Ubuntu 18.04, and want to run VMware Workstation, you either have to revert the Kernel to 4.x, or wait patiently for VMware to stop using an obsolete function. Very annoying.