WSL is one of the few good ideas Microsoft had in the last ... 5000 years or so.
It's a crappy company, like all corporate giants. It has a lot of crappy products. But the case is usually overstated.
* Windows Terminal
* Powershell 7
* Including OpenSSH client + server with windows
* the Visual Studio command line build toolset distribution
* Hyper V and bundling it with Windows Pro
* RDP
* MS Edge (basing on chromium, same extensions, same dev platform)