I would argue that price and complexity are exactly what caused the other issues you mentioned. Add the ridiculously glossy, pie-in-the-sky marketing mumbo-jumb

I would argue that price and complexity are exactly what caused the other issues you mentioned. Add the ridiculously glossy, pie-in-the-sky marketing mumbo-jumbo that gets sold to execs and combine it with the fact that it us literally impossible to simply click to download it and spin up a lab of VDI setups (Citrix and other major players, even VMware's latest versions) to tweak and study them extensively 9is what leads to rollouts under pressure that too often go horribly wrong. Microsoft offers free 180-day versions of Windows Enterprise foe download at the click of a button that you can test and destroy or even use for a very realistic PoC. Why can't other companies offer that?