number of cores vs virtual sockets on 6.0 and 6.5

All,

We have always increased the number of virtual sockets instead of cores per socket. That has been the recommendation. I came across the following article which states to do the apposite.

Has VMware changed their recommendations in 6.5? That is what it seems like.

https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2017/03/virtual-machine-vcpu-and-vnuma-rightsizing-rules-of-thumb.html#comment-112552