At my last place we had a decked out vmware. SAN, HA, hot migration. When I came to he new place I brought the mindset with me, but you have to need it to make it worth it.
Yeah that support license is solid, especially since most of us don’t actually call them with any questions :)
Sooner or later they’ll probably make it a pay / community duality like everything else, but for the moment, it’s the absolute best