Prior to VMWare Pro 15.5, stretch for all OSes was finally working correctly. If you set a machine to use only stretch, the UI would respect it and would always show up stretch (either aspect or free), regardless of "Autofit Guest" setting, which is grayed out when a VM is set to stretch.
However, since 15.5, the VMs randomly auto-fit on resizing the main window, instead of stretching, even if the VM is set to stretch-only.
This causes a huge inconvenience on HDPI displays where the base resolution of the VMs is intentionally set to lower so that the machine can stretch. As mentioned at the top, this appeared to be working correctly prior to 15.5, as you can see...
This:
Vs. now:
