I opened a ticket and my support rep is giving me the run around regarding obtaining the hotpatch. To make things worse, I just patched all my ESXi hosts and now the issue seems to be worse
1809 VM on a VMFS6 datastore takes 51 minutes to boot up (prior to patching it was 6 minutes)
1803VM on same datastore takes 21 seconds.
It's now become unusable. This is not production (yet) but I don't want to wait until end of Q2 for the fix if a hotpatch exists.