I think it’s great from a local workstation perspective and see it no more fragile than a standard windows, Mac, or Linux work station environment.

I do agree it doesn’t compare to a professional server cluster. I use wsl at work for a local workstation (small builds/jobs and debugging) but farm out big jobs to a server cluster.

Based on the described use case I think wsl would be a great option. I use it on my personal machine and transitioning from a code/ml project to playing a game of league is so easy compared to switching to my dual boot partition. Running wsl does share system resources with a second os, but the over head of windows is not that large. I personally never run into the case where native Linux provides a Benifit over wsl for jobs small enough that I wouldn’t just farm out to a cloud based server (very rare with my personal projects).