Microsoft touting WSL is an attempt to steal market share from actual Linux. It’s designed to make people think “if Windows does everything Linux can, why do I even need Linux?”, thereby feeding Microsoft licensing money, market control, and the user’s data. It’s not a move with computer users’ nor the free software ecosystem’s best interests in mind.
I saw the opposite, I saw developers trying WSL and then migrating with confidence to GNU/Linux distros.