As other people in this thread points out, WSL is not ideal but it really saves the ass of anyone forced to use Windows at work.

I have a thinkpad handed to me from work with windows on it and all the usual restrictions. I tried for a while to use it by constantly running a virtual machine with Linux, but Windows is not a stable enough environment to host that. So in the end I just bought myself a framework laptop because nobody actually controls that I use the laptop provided by work.

Not everyone is that lucky. Canonical found a way to make their life easier. I think that's objectively great, no matter what you think about Canonical as a company.

WSL is not generally something people use because they are afraid of changing to Linux, they use it because they are not allowed by IT to change their OS.

Both companies are failures.