Depends what you want to do. Carista beta does much of the same stuff, as well as Car Scanner Pro — both can be used with a generic bluetooth or wifi obd adapter. OBD11 for iOS is inexcusably awful.
Based on this thread I popped my OBD11 Pro (purchased in 2018) into my R and it fired up and scanned the car just fine (first time with 0 faults of any kind) so it still works for me.
solidworks for CAD/simulations and analyses, NX for CAM (CNC mill toolpathing). I definitely prefer solidworks and use it for personal projects too; I don't really have a choice when it comes to using NX for CAM but luckily I don't CNC mill too often
Interesting; are you setting back the clock or anything? I don't have experience with Pro but Enterprise will eventually start doing things if it thinks it's being pirated. Setting the background to black, disabling the USB ports, nuking its boot partition on the MBR/UEFI. I'm hoping some VW enthusiast who knows C better than I do will submit some WINE patches for VCDS or maybe I'll properly learn C one of these days.