Fully agree here with you as now for me also several weeks spent to find the Root cause here also with VM Support!!!
It is a Trail and error and until now no full fix available, sometimes Built in apps are working the other day not it is hard as we cannot go forward with rollout of WIN10 with VM Persona.
I also heard that a lot of users moved to UEM, but as you mentioned it is a cost factor here when you are only have View Standard in place.
it will be very interesting if VMware will provide a fix here of if they want to push UEM in this case!!!!!!
Did you tried WIN10 1703 also???