Welp, looks like I'll have to start migrating over to the appliance on the next vCenter revision.
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/08/farewell-vcenter-server-windows.html
VMware has been trying to move users over to the appliance for a bit now. They have been offering compelling reasons to move over such as having VUM built in and Native HA support for vCenter itself.
Full details listed here.