I have had the exact opposite experience than what you describe, and I use WSL 2 and the Windows Store daily. the integration between WSL 2 and Windows is aliv

I have had the exact opposite experience than what you describe, and I use WSL 2 and the Windows Store daily. the integration between WSL 2 and Windows is alive and well, I assure you. most times I hear of something like this at work, like very odd problems I've never seen before, I will sit with the person and observe what they do before problems come up. every single time it is because they have some custom thing they do or apply or install "to all [their] windows systems out of the box" which "makes things better" somehow, but in reality always seems to make things break. these people are always smart people who knew very well how Windows worked 20 years ago and are unaware of just how much has changed in those two decades. damn near everything has changed, FYI. the old ways no longer work in a lot of cases. those old tweaks mostly cause problems today. I'll show them what to do to stop windows from doing whatever it was that it did back then, in the rare event that windows still does the same things, and magically a lot of their issues simply stop being issues immediately. your mileage may vary, but if you have problems, I would look closely at any customizations you've made, if any. maybe you've made none, I don't know. I no longer make any, and I no longer have the problems I hear others having.