I wonder but do we know if VMWare plan to fix not being able to Passthrough a USB card or is this now by design and hence won't be fixed?
It'll be a shame if they don't plan to fix it, I'll need to switch to something like KVM / Xen for one of my hosts otherwise in the longer term. 5.0 will do fine for a good while however I suspect the Guest OS support will fall behind sooner or later if I become stuck on an older version.