Possible to Export ESXi 6.5 U2 Host for Import to Workstation 12 or 14?

I've tried everything I can think of but can't get a CentOS 7 host to export from ESXi 6.5 U2 to VMware Workstation 12.5.9 or 14.1.1. Things I tried:

- Just exporting the OVF and manually fixing the pvscsi error (edit the file and change it from VirtualSCSI to lsiLogic)

     - That allowed the machine to boot, but it eventually hung during the OS load

- Exporting the vmx with the vCenter Converter tool

     - Same as before

I can't find any KB articles documenting which versions of ESXi are supported to export to which versions of Workstation, so I can't tell if any of this is supposed to work or not.