Just want to add my 2 cents here. I've been bringing a co-worker up to speed on supporting our VMware environments and he didn't believe that the pathetic performance we get is because of the pathetic Web client! Didn't take long to prove it...
I have completely given up on trying to use Chrome, and now only use IE 11. Even though I already went through and setup all of our vcenter url's in IE settings as trusted sites etc, it still take 3 or 4 attempts at logon to just get a logon screen.
Instead of lame attempts to act like things are about to get better, I wonder if VMware is doing anything at all to bring a thick client back? The problem isn't the people who are complaining, for example I've been doing this for decades, I know how to get things to work. The problem itself is your thick client, and it's created a 2ndary issue, the whole company seems to not care about this!