One thing that's very valuable to me in WSL (both 1 and 2) is the automagic network settings that make ports available between systems - so if I start listening

One thing that's very valuable to me in WSL (both 1 and 2) is the automagic network settings that make ports available between systems - so if I start listening on 127.0.0.1:1234 in Linux, I can connect to that on Windows and vice versa.