WSL never really got the cross compatible filesystems working though: I eventually found myself giving up on it and just using cygwin. I honestly don't understand why WSL gets so much attention when cygwin is just so much more compatible with everything and includes essentially every package I have ever wanted?
I've wondered the same. A lot of it is PR from Microsoft, including this post here probably.
There is a Reddit sub for WSL (/r/bashonubuntuonwindows) and it's apparent that MS has PR people on it pimping each new release. Reminding these mostly new developers that Cygwin has been around (with all its problems) for years, brings on a flood of downvotes.
And now it's exactly the same with WSL2; when someone has an issue with some esoteric networking feature that is still not supported on WSL2 beta versions, I'll often remind them that VMWare Player and VirtualBox have been around for a decade and will solve their problem, while also including all sorts of nice features like shared folders, drag & drop, copy and paste integration, etc. But they don't want to hear it. They've been fed so much marketing that WSL and WSL2 are really something incredible...
