Where to go now the Virtual Volumes are deprecated?

So the day has finally come that we need to begin planning to upgrade to the ESX 9.1 Platform, which means of course Virtual Volumes will no longer work at all.

We have come to heavily rely on Virtual Volumes, and seeing that functionality go away is absolutely crushing. Everpure said last year when announcing this: 

There are a lot of projects that have now been accelerated due to this change and some engineering resources have already been committed to achieve this acceleration; other engineering resources are being committed for this work.  

To date I have seen no announcements about these other projects.

Is there any alternative we have other than just going back to old-fashioned VMFS volumes?