I'm not sure I have clarity on this, but if your service and support agreement expires, do perpetual licenses get locked out of esxi patching? It's unclear base

I'm not sure I have clarity on this, but if your service and support agreement expires, do perpetual licenses get locked out of esxi patching? It's unclear based on what they're saying. Update VIBs were always available even to foundation and essentials, but companies like HPE paywall locked bios updates and certain support installer a few years ago and even legally went after people for distributing them. We usually use use the commands from https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ to run updates. We use vmware 6.7 and 7 extensively for small business along with Veeam to make recovery and snapshotting better.