I think this is overstated. This only falls apart if you cannot get buy-in from your development team, and are not applying proper version management to your to

I think this is overstated. This only falls apart if you cannot get buy-in from your development team, and are not applying proper version management to your tool chain. First, we use Ansible, not just for development, but for deployment. Because of this, if the time comes to upgrade Ansible, everybody upgrades, and any incompatible playbooks are immediately addressed. Second, Parallels is a bad choice. They do not have a sufficient enterprise focus, and their product is updated too often. It's great for desktop virtualization, but not for much else. We use VMWare Fusion, have no performance issues, and have never experienced the issue of hypervisor bit rot. On the one occasion when we upgraded VMWare, we also upgraded the corresponding Vagrant plugin, and everything worked fine.