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I don't disagree with you, but at the same time:
They had competent people making the thing happen, then they decided to push them away and eventually replace their code with Wine backports and whatnot.
To be fair, if Microsoft was able to create WSLv1 without a kernel and it run just fine, why would Wine not be able to do the same? :) No drivers yes, but the software (including GUI stuff) run just fine and that's not the case with Wine + the mainstream Windows' software.