It's a bit ironic that the author works for VMWare, since VMWare Workstation is completely unusable[0] with Linux 5.8 with no ETA to fix in sight.

[0]: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/638457

The innovation coming from big name players in the VM space, namely VMware and Parallels, is all but non-existent. It’s no surprise they were caught off guard when the requirements to update their product to a new OS version was anything other than replacing a couple lines of version number text.