The ability to run docker containers as wsl instances looks nifty. A bit more overhead since they now run as a VM instead of a container, but you get the ability to start a shell with Windows terminal or access files with Explorer (and thus every program running in Windows)
How does this compare to running the containers in one of the WSL VMs? Can't you do all the same things via the host VM?
Perhaps I misunderstand your comment but when you run docker / podman in Windows, you are using WSL / HyperV.