Hyper-V isn't so bad in traditional enterprise. You can buy a perpetual license on something which includes patches for the next 10 years (despite people saying for the last 10 years Microsoft is imminently going to force new products to subscription only), that license can cover the guest VM Window licensing, and support comes through the same contract you manage your desktop/laptop clients from. It integrates with the management of the rest of your domain and is, generally, actually pretty decent what it does for the given customer use case.

If you're building a hip new product with a bunch of Linux VMs you defined yourself greenfield then it probably seems a little ridiculous, especially since most of your stuff is likely containers or at least hybrid cloud conscious out of the gate. At that point you can grab a low cost subscription for your couple of servers and call it a day for a few grand a year.

Nutanix is probably the option most people looking at (or currently using) Hyper-V would be weighing right now.