"WSL is grafted on to Windows, and has low priority" - not sure the team of ~12+ of us would agree with you on that. And how would the shell team put up a bann

"WSL is grafted on to Windows, and has low priority" - not sure the team of ~12+ of us would agree with you on that. And how would the shell team put up a banner in Sublime? If the kernel prevented these files from being written to, how would we install the distro in the first place? Could, should, might, may. Yep, there are 100 ways in which some things could, and may yet, be done, but these choices were made for hundreds of sound reasons. We're still working hard on WSL - lots of improvements in the pipe.